cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.cpu.mk bsd.dep.mk bsd.lib.mk bsd.sys.mk src/sys/conf files kern.mk kern.pre.mk kmod.mk src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Makefile

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:36:12PM -0800, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>   Modified files:
>     share/mk             bsd.cpu.mk bsd.dep.mk bsd.lib.mk 
>                          bsd.sys.mk 
>     sys/conf             files kern.mk kern.pre.mk kmod.mk 
>     sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Makefile 
>   Log:
>   This are the build infrastructure changes to allow to use the
>   Intel C/C++ compiler (lang/icc) to build the kernel.
...
>   Problems with icc v8:
>    - panic: npx0 cannot be emulated on an SMP system
>    - UP: first start of /bin/sh results in a FP exception

You forgot the other problems with icc v8 -- Intel's preditorial
behavior.  Note that some parts of the Intel compilers support libs do a
CPUID call and if it notes an AMD CPU either segfaults or dumbs down the
capabilities of the CPU to that of the original i386.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)