On Tuesday 10 May 2005 22:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> You are correct.  However, it might be necessary to patch something that
> won't compile with icc, but does compile with gcc.  I think this is the
> primary reason for the icc USE flag.
Isn't tc-* functions there also for this?
And anyway, there can be patches which makes something work both with icc and 
gcc.
When I worked a bit with icc, I found out that it was just stricter than gcc, 
but all the changes needed to be done for icc was right also for gcc (and 
usually stopped gcc from throw a warning on something).
Probably with gcc4 many of the errors are now shared by both compilers as it 
turned up even more strict than before.

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