Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751185AbWC1RaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:30:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751189AbWC1RaJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:30:09 -0500 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:58831 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbWC1RaH (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:30:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:28:47 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Jason L Tibbitts III , Eric Piel , Jan Engelhardt , Rob Landley , nix@esperi.org.uk, mmazur@kernel.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llh-discuss@lists.pld-linux.org Subject: Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace Message-ID: <20060328172847.GA2826@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kyle Moffett , Jason L Tibbitts III , Eric Piel , Jan Engelhardt , Rob Landley , nix@esperi.org.uk, mmazur@kernel.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llh-discuss@lists.pld-linux.org References: <4426A5BF.2080804@tremplin-utc.net> <200603261609.10992.rob@landley.net> <44271E88.6040101@tremplin-utc.net> <5DC72207-3C0B-44C2-A9E5-319C0A965E9D@mac.com> <36A8C3CC-3E4D-4158-AABB-F4D2C66AA8CD@mac.com> <442960B6.2040502@tremplin-utc.net> <7E2F0C3C-4091-4EEB-8E10-C1F58F94BD59@mac.com> <54199D84-7DB7-434E-BA83-9B2658182124@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54199D84-7DB7-434E-BA83-9B2658182124@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1500 Lines: 34 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 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/