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On 21/01/16 21:37, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:33:43PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Sure, do we know if that ICC compatible? Do we care? There are a
>> series of ICC hacks put in place on ipxe's original solution which
>> I've folded in, it seems that works but if we care about ICC those
>> folks should perhaps help review as well.
>
> I didn't know the kernel could even be compiled with ICC? Thought
> only GCC worked?
>
> Anyhow - it may be that those fixes were for quite old ICC versions.
> Does the latest one manifest these oddities?

I haven't tested building iPXE with icc for some time.  (The support for 
icc was originally added with the plan to be able to compile to EFI Byte 
Code; this plan was swiftly abandoned.)

The most recent version of icc that I have personally used with that 
code was 10.1.018.

Michael