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RE: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
- From: "S. Bosscher" <S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- To: "'dewar at gnat dot com '" <dewar at gnat dot com>,"'hp at bitrange dot com '" <hp at bitrange dot com>,"'martin at xemacs dot org '" <martin at xemacs dot org>
- Cc: "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org '" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:00:31 +0200
- Subject: RE: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
> > The test
> >
> > #ifdef __GNUC__
> >
> > no longer conclusively identifies gcc.
>
> It is interesting that Intel itself used trademark protection to stop
> competitors from emulating the x86 architecture to this extent
> (pretendning
> that they were really Intel in response to the CPU identification
> instruction) :-)
Are there any plans to ask Intel revert their change?
Gr.
Steven