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Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.

From: Robert Myers <rmyers1400 at attbi dot com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
Cc: bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, martin at xemacs dot org
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:36:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
References: <200306211957.52289.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu> <200306220128.h5M1S9Q22633@greed.delorie.com>

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.

This _is_ all a bit troubling. Intel plainly pictures itself ensconced at the very heart of gnu/linux, which would in effect become gnu/intel/linux or maybe even intel/gnu/linux.

One would need go no further to understand that gnu/linux is on a fast track to the center of the cosmos, because intel wants to make sure that linuxtel is just as inevitable as was wintel.

My natural instinct is that the gcc community needs to do more about this than to tut-tut, but I have no concrete suggestions.

RM

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