5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

[Avleen Vig]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:30:59PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > It seems to me that building kernel with icc is currently broken, at 
> > least in 5-STABLE. Could somebody investigate this?
> 
> I don't have a problem to compile it with a recent -current and a recent
> icc (-stable not tested), but the resulting kernel imediatly panics
> (page fault in _mtx_...()).

Without intending to start any compiler holy wars, what benefits does
ICC provide over GCC for the end user?