On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:56:37 GMT
stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) wrote:

> I accept that gcc and friends are widely used. I use it myself from
> time to time. However, despite the amount of money thrown at it by
> companies such as ARM and Intel, it's not considered to be a good
> compiler by people who know about such things. In the main, it's
> good enough.

 Going back to when gcc was young around the early 90s it was a
significant improvement on the C compilers included with most Unix systems.
Many unix houses switched to it so that they could at least be consistent
across the platforms they supported and not have to workaround different
bugs on each platform.

 Since then all the crap C compilers that used to get bundled have
gone and the only commercial C compilers remaining are the very good ones
because you can't sell (or give away) a crap C compiler now.

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