[OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace

[Kyle Moffett]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:13:42, Eric Piel wrote:
> 03/28/2006 05:57 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote/a écrit:
>> But my question still stands.  Does anybody actually use any non- 
>> GCC compiler for userspace in Linux?
>
> At least in the domain of HPC, I've seen people which were  
> compiling mostly *everything* with the intel compiler (x86 and  
> ia64) for performance reason. So... yes userspace is sometimes  
> compiled with non-GCC compiler :-)

Ok, well, the Intel compiler actually ends up emulating GCC and  
supports most of its extensions; supposedly it can even be used to  
compile the kernel sources, as per include/linux/compiler-intel.h. (I  
don't know how recently this has been tested, though)  So does  
anybody compile userspace under anything other than GCC or Intel  
compilers?  Do any such compilers even exist?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett