Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965170AbWJ2MqV (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:46:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965171AbWJ2MqV (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:46:21 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:4503 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965170AbWJ2MqU (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:46:20 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 72.57.81.197 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:44:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: why test for "__GNUC__"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 22 On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > since (as i understand it) the linux kernel *requires* gcc these > >days, what is the point of the numerous preprocessor tests of the > >form: > > ICC is said to work too. ah, i was not aware of that. but does that mean that ICC is (or will be) *officially* supported? or does it just *happen* to work at the moment with no guarantees of future compatibility? rday p.s. is there, in fact, any part of the kernel source tree that has a preprocessor directive to identify the use of ICC? just curious. - 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/