Removal of ICC (intel compiler) bits from mk

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG> (from Tue, 26 Apr 2011  
11:46:45 -0400):

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok  
>> with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places.
>> The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to  
>> fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest in  
>> ICC is low.
>> If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-)
>
> For what it's worth, I still occasionally use icc for simple
> tasks-- mainly as a reference for code generation, since it
> produces reasonable output in many cases where gcc does not.
> As I recall, making it work required minimal changes... possibly
> just making sure __va_list gets defined in _types.h.  I have
> the following in one of my trees, although this is obviously
> not the right fix.

It depends if you want to hide the problem on all other compilers or  
not. I would prefer to not hide the problem.

Bye,
Alexander.

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