Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Verych <> | Subject | Re: why test for "__GNUC__"? | Date | Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:17:51 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hallo.
On 2006-10-29, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:44:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Please, do >> >> ls include/linux/compiler-* > > but according to compiler.h: > > /* Intel compiler defines __GNUC__. So we will overwrite implementations > * coming from above header files here > */ > > so even ICC will define __GNUC__, which means that testing for > __GNUC__ is *still*, under the circumstances, redundant, isn't that > right?
Does it introduce bugs? Just think of it as legacy, if you want.
And if you can, please, help with development or bugs, not this. ____
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