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Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, martin at xemacs dot org
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:29:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
References: <200306211957.52289.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> <200306220128.h5M1S9Q22633@greed.delorie.com>

On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:28 pm, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > What a particularly unfortunate decision! Now all configure scripts
> > report icc8 as a gcc version, and when you try to set compiler flags
> > based on GXX="yes" after AC_PROG_CXX in autoconf, you're hosed because
> > icc doesn't translate gcc's command line switches :-(
>
> IMHO, that's icc's problem, not ours.  If it wants to claim to be gcc,
> it had better act like gcc.

I was speaking more as an application developer than a gcc person. And I bet 
we're going to get bootstrap failure reports from this for gcc as well.

W.

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References:
- Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
  - From: Wolfgang Bangerth
- Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
  - From: DJ Delorie

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