Intel compiler questions

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-05 09:59:39

Hi,
I've just installed Intel 8.0 compiler for Linux and make a first attempt at 
creating a toolset for it.

I've got some questions, and hope somebody with more knowledge of the compiler 
can answer more quickly than I can google for answer.

1. I've made the toolset by inheriting from gcc. This works quite nice, except 
that I get errors on options like "-finline-function", "-s" and 
"-Wno-inline". I can change those, but I wonder if the idea of inheriting 
from gcc is right? Anybody knows if intel and gcc are sufficiently compatible 
in their options.

2. I get warnings like:

a.cpp(11): remark #1419: external declaration in primary source file

on innocent code like

int foo();

and also similiar remark 1418. They are printed to stderr, which break tests. 
For a while, I've just disabled both warnings, since they don't look usefull 
at all. Is that bad?

3. Does Intel use GNU linker? I don't see any separate linker, but I don't see 
GNU linker mentioned in docs either.

Thanks,
Volodya