[ltp] Intel compiler

[Justin C]

On Friday 19 April 2002 13:17, you wrote:
> Basically Intel's reasoning for
> making their own compiler is that there are some chips which GCC
> doesn't support well enough and they wanted to be able to show off
> advanced features of the IA32 and IA64 architectures that GCC didn't
> adequately support.

Surely, then, it would have been cheaper (and better for the open 
source community) for Intel to put some effort into GCC. If Intel could 
get better support for its processors into mainstream GCC then *all* 
linux distros would make better use of the pocessor(s).

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