From: "Roger Heflin" <rheflin@atipa.com>
To: "'Kyle Moffett'" <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       "'Jan Engelhardt'" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "'Eric Piel'" <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
       "'Rob Landley'" <rob@landley.net>, <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
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:15:06 -0600
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> Not even GCC fully supports C99 (although I think it does 
> support that keyword when passed -std=c99 or -std=gnu99), and 
> I suspect that a majority of the other compilers for which we 
> would want to add support in the kernel headers would not 
> support C99 or would do a poor job of handling inline functions.
> 
> But my question still stands.  Does anybody actually use any 
> non-GCC compiler for userspace in Linux?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett

Sometimes.

I have customers that use Pathscale, Intel, and Portland
groups compilers.

Not all of them use the C compilers (Some just use the F90
compilers), but a number of them do use the C compiler, though
I would be that most of the applications are not going to care
about doing much against anything but standard ANSI C calls.

                                Roger

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