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mention new-style Intel compilers icx and ifx
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ripley committed Jul 16, 2023
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There have been no recent reports on the use of Intel compilers: this
section is left in case it provides helpful hints.

In 2021 the C/C++ compilers migrated to be based on LLVM (now named
@command{icx}), with the Fortran compiler @command{ifx} following (but
with a front-end based in earlier Intel compiler, not on
@command{flang}). There have been no reports on the LLVM-based
compilers.
@c https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/adoption-of-llvm-complete-icx.html
The earlier compilers remain available, now dubbed `Classic'.

Intel compilers have been used under @cputype{ix86} and @cputype{x86_64}
Linux. Brian Ripley used version 9.0 of the compilers for
@cputype{x86_64} on Fedora Core 5 with
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