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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:56:27 +0200
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Kyle Moffett" <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace
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On 3/28/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:13:42, Eric Piel wrote:
> > 03/28/2006 05:57 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote/a ?crit:
> >> But my question still stands.  Does anybody actually use any non-
> >> GCC compiler for userspace in Linux?
> >
> > At least in the domain of HPC, I've seen people which were
> > compiling mostly *everything* with the intel compiler (x86 and
> > ia64) for performance reason. So... yes userspace is sometimes
> > compiled with non-GCC compiler :-)
>
> Ok, well, the Intel compiler actually ends up emulating GCC and
> supports most of its extensions; supposedly it can even be used to
> compile the kernel sources, as per include/linux/compiler-intel.h. (I
> don't know how recently this has been tested, though)  So does
> anybody compile userspace under anything other than GCC or Intel
> compilers?  Do any such compilers even exist?
>

Other compilers do exist.

Over the years I've personally used a few to compile userspace apps
for different projects (though never for compiling the kernel).

Some of the compilers I have personally used for userspace apps on
Linux include ;

lcc   - http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/
tcc   - http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/

(plus gcc & icc ofcourse)


Others that I know of but have never used include :

sdcc   - http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
Compaq C for Linux   - http://h30097.www3.hp.com/linux/compaq_c/index.html
Open Watcom   - http://www.openwatcom.org/
vacpp   - http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/vacpp/
XL C/C++   - http://www.absoft.com/Products/Compilers/C_C++/Linux/XLC/XLC.html

and I'm sure many more exist...

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