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fighting against an open source monopoly.fighting against an open source monopoly.Posted Oct 25, 2007 18:19 UTC (Thu) by southey (subscriber, #9466)In reply to: fighting against an open source monopoly. by lmartelli Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc
Can you compile the Linux kernel with another compiler other than GCC? Do you have binary compatibility between compilers especially for C++? (The answers were no for earlier versions of Intel's C/C++ compiler.) Depending on what you define as a monopoly, an answer of no to either question indicates some characteristics of a monopoly is present.
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fighting against an open source monopoly. Posted Oct 25, 2007 21:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It's nearly impossible to write an OS kernel using only portable C, and the Intel C compiler actually pretends to *be* GCC and implements a lot of GCC extensions in part so that it can compile the kernel. As for C++ compatibility, I thought the Intel compiler conformed to the same (originally Itanium) C++ ABI as GCC, HP C++, and others do: there have of course been bugs in this conformance, but that hardly makes a monopoly.
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