Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:28:47 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace |
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:59:13, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>>>"KM" == Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> writes: > >>So does anybody compile userspace under anything other than GCC or > >>Intel compilers? Do any such compilers even exist? > > > >PGI and PathScale are around. Lahey, too, although they seem to > >just do Fortran now. > > > >I doubt you'd want to worry about compiling the entire userland > >with these compilers, however. > > Mainly I want to know if I should even bother making the kabi headers > compile with anything other than GCC. Judging from the apparently > negligible number of users, it doesn't sound like something I should > spend much or any time on, at least for now.
I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion. People have already named several non-GCC compilers that are used; and most of the users of commercial compilers won't be reading this list.
If you want glibc to ever include these things, they had better be portable C and work without GCC. Otherwise it's a non-starter. Only GCC may be used to build glibc, but it deliberately supports any conforming C compiler to build userspace code.
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