Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750916AbWC1SqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:46:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751250AbWC1SqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:46:23 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:48796 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919AbWC1SqW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:46:22 -0500 To: Kyle Moffett Cc: 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 References: <200603141619.36609.mmazur@kernel.pl> <20060326065205.d691539c.mrmacman_g4@mac.com> <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> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:44:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <442960B6.2040502@tremplin-utc.net> (Eric Piel's message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:13:42 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 22 Eric Piel writes: > 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 :-) The pathscale, and pgi compilers also get a reasonable amount of use. pathscale has a gcc derived front-end so it isn't to much to worry about. The pgi compiler as I recall is a fairly pedantic c90 compiler, that doesn't try and support gcc extensions. Eric - 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/