[OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:59:13, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>>>"KM" == Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4 at mac.com> writes:
> >>So does anybody compile userspace under anything other than GCC or  
> >>Intel compilers?  Do any such compilers even exist?
> >
> >PGI and PathScale are around.  Lahey, too, although they seem to  
> >just do Fortran now.
> >
> >I doubt you'd want to worry about compiling the entire userland  
> >with these compilers, however.
> 
> Mainly I want to know if I should even bother making the kabi headers  
> compile with anything other than GCC.  Judging from the apparently  
> negligible number of users, it doesn't sound like something I should  
> spend much or any time on, at least for now.

I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion.  People have already named
several non-GCC compilers that are used; and most of the users of
commercial compilers won't be reading this list.

If you want glibc to ever include these things, they had better be
portable C and work without GCC.  Otherwise it's a non-starter.
Only GCC may be used to build glibc, but it deliberately supports any
conforming C compiler to build userspace code.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery