From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 13:43:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9F8106566B; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:43:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A328FC15; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p5B155804.dip.t-dialin.net [91.21.88.4]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C726B844016; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [IPv6:fd73:10c7:2053:1::2:102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3C61170; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.14.4/8.13.8/Submit) id p3SDhJjY096529; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.ec.europa.eu (pslux.ec.europa.eu [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20110428154319.23661m78gvvdqmsk@webmail.leidinger.net> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: David Schultz References: <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Dynamic Internet Messaging Program (DIMP) H3 (1.1.6) X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: C726B844016.AFE36 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0, required 6, autolearn=disabled) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1304603003.03828@Cx0dsh3ogc8/7bGXybVdBg X-EBL-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:51:25 +0000 Cc: Rui Paulo , "arch@freebsd.org" , "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Removal of ICC (intel compiler) bits from mk X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:43:37 -0000 Quoting David Schultz (from Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:46:45 -0400): > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Rui Paulo wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok >> with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places. >> The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to >> fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest in >> ICC is low. >> If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-) > > For what it's worth, I still occasionally use icc for simple > tasks-- mainly as a reference for code generation, since it > produces reasonable output in many cases where gcc does not. > As I recall, making it work required minimal changes... possibly > just making sure __va_list gets defined in _types.h. I have > the following in one of my trees, although this is obviously > not the right fix. It depends if you want to hide the problem on all other compilers or not. I would prefer to not hide the problem. Bye, Alexander. -- Volley Theory: It is better to have lobbed and lost than never to have lobbed at all. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137