Patches to compile the kernel with Intel's C/C++ compiler

Guido van Rooij guido at gvr.org
Tue Nov 11 07:31:45 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:22:21PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> at http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ I have some patches
> which allow to compile the kernel with icc (CC=icc make depend && CC=icc
> make). They are a joint effort of Marius Strobl and me.
> 
> The resulting kernel still has some issues (no NFS, some packet loss,
> ... see icc.README in the above mentioned directory), but it boots and
> runs.

What are the benefits of running an icc compiled kernel?

-Guido


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