Re: GMP and the Intel compiler

[Kevin Ryde]

Ronald Bruck <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Has anybody modified the source for GMP so that it will compile with
> the Intel C++ 7.0 compiler?

Not so far as I know.

> (Perhaps it's politically incorrect for
> Gnu software not to use the Gnu cc?)

Oh, well, we don't mind seeing vendor compilers work, but it's got to
be within the autoconf/automake/libtool framework.  Anything else is
too hard.

> Intel claims, and my (few) tests
> seem to support, that it produces code 30% faster than gcc's.

GMP speed comes primarily from the assembler code.  If any of the C
code is causing a big bottleneck we'd like to know and try to do
something about it.

> I've tried, of course, and failed miserably.

I think only the very latest libtool cvs has support for icc shared
libraries.  A --disable-shared build will hopefully work, if the
compiler command line options are tolerably standard.

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