-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 04:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > I explored the ICC package from intel a while back. It's nice compiler. It > generated much smaller executables than gcc ever hopes to... sometimes ICC > even made faster executables than gcc... but it wasn't really worth the > aggravation getting ICC to fit into the linux platform. There is no total, > painless conversion to ICC that I know of. I was never able to get a kernel > compiled with it... > > If someone was to write a seamless wrapper for it, that translated gcc > commands to icc ones, there may still be a legitimate use for ICC on linux. > > Until then, it's a curiosity.
Most packages only need minor tweaking to get icc working. While testing out compilers for a work project I've found icc to use approximately 30-35% of the time gcc need to compile c++ sources, so we're definitely going to stick with it here. Most options map directly, Intel have done a lot of work to make it easy prefering icc over gcc. There's still a few tweaks that need to be done in some sources (like e.g. gcc's hton* macros), but these shouldn't be hard to incorporate in a general way. Intel has published a paper on gcc compatibility, and they plan on making icc even more compatible with gcc. They also made a 2.4.something kernel compile on icc, with a few patches for kernel code using gcc-specific features. A quick grep of /usr/portage shows less than 10 ebuilds currently honoring USE=icc. I just wish more ebuild developers would add icc awareness, allowing us who prefer the faster compile to have the choice ;) And, I'll ofcourse be very willing to start submitting patches for this myself, if it will be used at all. The one I tried submitting got ignored in favour of a gcc-only ebuild, so I've kept my patched ebuilds overlay'd locally for now. - --Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AAlOds9m9uhAobARAlIiAJ41y1K2cN8V/md4jhVPkFMkOrUB1wCeJwnJ TJ19MNYD6MwDMZgVVi/1h3o= =zdvX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
