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Re: Intel compiler 8.0 pretends to be gcc 3.2.
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: hp at bitrange dot com, martin at xemacs dot org
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:51:42 -0400 (EDT)
- 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) :-)