Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:12 -0500 |
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On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:28:47, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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.
Ok, my email was a bit premature (I've gotten a couple other private emails about other compilers too) and if people see this as an issue then I'll try to make all the code C89-compliant from the start. I just didn't want to go writing a whole bunch of compatibility macros only to find out that they never got used.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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