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Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.

From: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>
To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
Cc: rmyers1400 at attbi dot com, bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:57:30 -0700
Subject: Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
References: <200306211957.52289.bangerth@ices.utexas.edu><200306220128.h5M1S9Q22633@greed.delorie.com><3EF51616.5070901@attbi.com><200306220244.h5M2ikB23529@greed.delorie.com>
Reply-to: martin at xemacs dot org

>>>>> "D" == DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

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

D> My suggestion is to do nothing.  If we mis-detect icc as gcc and that
D> causes build problems (rendering icc unusable), so be it.

I just noticed this option in the man page:

       -no-gcc        Do  not predefine __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__,
                      and __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__

so there's at least an easy workaround for the user.

Martin

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