Re: Patches to compile the kernel with Intel's C/C++ compiler

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 11/11/03

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To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, arch@freebsd.org

    At 10:22 PM +0100 11/10/03, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
    >Hi,
    >
    >at http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/
    >I have some patches which allow to compile the kernel
    >with icc (CC=icc make depend && CC=icc make). They are
    >a joint effort of Marius Strobl and me.
    >
    >The resulting kernel still has some issues (no NFS,
    >some packet loss, ... see icc.README in the above
    >mentioned directory), but it boots and runs.

    Will some of these be reasonable to commit before 5.2?
    Even if there are some issues, those issues will only
    come up if someone *does* use the icc compiler, right?
    So, they'd be safe to add as far as anyone using gcc
    is concerned? 

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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