From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:47:05 -0500
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On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:20 am, Kyle Moffett 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett

I play with Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler (http://www.tinycc.org), and 
hope to get a distro compiled with it someday, at least as a proof of 
concept.

That aims for full c99 and is already implementing a lot of gcc stuff too.

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.
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