From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why test for "__GNUC__"?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:44:18 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610290742310.7457@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610291244310.15986@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > since (as i understand it) the linux kernel *requires* gcc these
> >days, what is the point of the numerous preprocessor tests of the
> >form:
>
> ICC is said to work too.
ah, i was not aware of that. but does that mean that ICC is (or will
be) *officially* supported? or does it just *happen* to work at the
moment with no guarantees of future compatibility?
rday
p.s. is there, in fact, any part of the kernel source tree that has a
preprocessor directive to identify the use of ICC? just curious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-29 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-29 11:13 Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-29 11:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-29 12:44 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2006-10-29 12:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-10-29 15:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-29 16:17 ` Oleg Verych
2006-10-29 17:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-29 17:37 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-29 18:23 ` Oleg Verych
2006-10-30 3:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-30 5:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-29 16:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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