Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751224AbWC1RlU (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751243AbWC1RlU (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:20 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.85]:37347 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751224AbWC1RlU (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060328172847.GA2826@nevyn.them.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> <20060328172847.GA2826@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:41:12 -0500 To: Daniel Jacobowitz X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1910 Lines: 41 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 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 - 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/