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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>, "arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Removal of ICC (intel compiler) bits from mk
Message-ID:  <20110428154319.23661m78gvvdqmsk@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU>
References:  <E604222D-A731-4F0E-BF21-FF7F4306A899@gmail.com> <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU>

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Quoting David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> (from Tue, 26 Apr 2011  
11:46:45 -0400):

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok  
>> with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places.
>> The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to  
>> fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest in  
>> ICC is low.
>> If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-)
>
> For what it's worth, I still occasionally use icc for simple
> tasks-- mainly as a reference for code generation, since it
> produces reasonable output in many cases where gcc does not.
> As I recall, making it work required minimal changes... possibly
> just making sure __va_list gets defined in _types.h.  I have
> the following in one of my trees, although this is obviously
> not the right fix.

It depends if you want to hide the problem on all other compilers or  
not. I would prefer to not hide the problem.

Bye,
Alexander.

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	It is better to have lobbed and lost
	than never to have lobbed at all.

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