linux-kernel - Re: why test for "__GNUC_

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:48:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why test for "__GNUC__"?

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:44:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > p.s.  is there, in fact, any part of the kernel source tree that has a
> > preprocessor directive to identify the use of ICC?  just curious.
>
> Please, do
>
> 	ls include/linux/compiler-*

but according to compiler.h:

/* Intel compiler defines __GNUC__. So we will overwrite implementations
 * coming from above header files here
 */

so even ICC will define __GNUC__, which means that testing for
__GNUC__ is *still*, under the circumstances, redundant, isn't that
right?

rday
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