[build] Remove support for building with the Intel C compiler

Support for building with the Intel C compiler (icc) was added in 2009
in the expectation that UEFI support would eventually involve
compiling iPXE to EFI Byte Code.

EFI Byte Code has never found any widespread use: no widely available
compilers can emit it, Microsoft refuses to sign EFI Byte Code
binaries for UEFI Secure Boot, and I have personally never encountered
any examples of EFI Byte Code in the wild.

The support for using the Intel C compiler has not been tested in over
a decade, and would almost certainly require modification to work with
current releases of the compiler.

Simplify the build process by removing this old legacy code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/tables.h b/src/include/ipxe/tables.h
index 60f8efdea..28a87da96 100644
--- a/src/include/ipxe/tables.h
+++ b/src/include/ipxe/tables.h
@@ -444,75 +444,4 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
 	      pointer >= table_start ( table ) ;			\
 	      pointer-- )
 
-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * Intel's C compiler chokes on several of the constructs used in this
- * file.  The workarounds are ugly, so we use them only for an icc
- * build.
- *
- */
-#define ICC_ALIGN_HACK_FACTOR 128
-#ifdef __ICC
-
-/*
- * icc miscompiles zero-length arrays by inserting padding to a length
- * of two array elements.  We therefore have to generate the
- * __table_entries() symbols by hand in asm.
- *
- */
-#undef __table_entries
-#define __table_entries( table, idx ) ( {				\
-	extern __table_type ( table )					\
-		__table_temp_sym ( idx, __LINE__ ) []			\
-		__table_entry ( table, idx ) 				\
-		asm ( __table_entries_sym ( table, idx ) );		\
-	__asm__ ( ".ifndef %c0\n\t"					\
-		  ".section " __table_section ( table, idx ) "\n\t"	\
-		  ".align %c1\n\t"					\
-	          "\n%c0:\n\t"						\
-		  ".previous\n\t" 					\
-		  ".endif\n\t"						\
-		  : : "i" ( __table_temp_sym ( idx, __LINE__ ) ),	\
-		      "i" ( __table_alignment ( table ) ) );		\
-	__table_temp_sym ( idx, __LINE__ ); } )
-#define __table_entries_sym( table, idx )				\
-	"__tbl_" __table_name ( table ) "_" #idx
-#define __table_temp_sym( a, b )					\
-	___table_temp_sym( __table_, a, _, b )
-#define ___table_temp_sym( a, b, c, d ) a ## b ## c ## d
-
-/*
- * icc ignores __attribute__ (( aligned (x) )) when it is used to
- * decrease the compiler's default choice of alignment (which may be
- * higher than the alignment actually required by the structure).  We
- * work around this by forcing the alignment to a large multiple of
- * the required value (so that we are never attempting to decrease the
- * default alignment) and then postprocessing the object file to
- * reduce the alignment back down to the "real" value.
- *
- */
-#undef __table_alignment
-#define __table_alignment( table ) \
-	( ICC_ALIGN_HACK_FACTOR * __alignof__ ( __table_type ( table ) ) )
-
-/*
- * Because of the alignment hack, we must ensure that the compiler
- * never tries to place multiple objects within the same section,
- * otherwise the assembler will insert padding to the (incorrect)
- * alignment boundary.  Do this by appending the line number to table
- * section names.
- *
- * Note that we don't need to worry about padding between array
- * elements, since the alignment is declared on the variable (i.e. the
- * whole array) rather than on the type (i.e. on all individual array
- * elements).
- */
-#undef __table_section
-#define __table_section( table, idx ) \
-	".tbl." __table_name ( table ) "." __table_str ( idx ) \
-	"." __table_xstr ( __LINE__ )
-#define __table_xstr( x ) __table_str ( x )
-
-#endif /* __ICC */
-
 #endif /* _IPXE_TABLES_H */