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But they are not the only commercial vendor doing this.

Many in the open source community only know GCC and tend to think everyone supports everything.

Since the early K&R C days, each commercial compiler vendor implemented the parts it liked to implement, while leaving out parts they were not so keen to provide.



Yes, and it's always sucked.

In the bad-old-days, of course, there was little choice but to use whatever (typically bad) commercial compiler one had available. So although these compilers generally sucked, that was just SNAFU.

But now things are different: GCC, and now Clang, provide high-quality and timely support for a wide variety of targets, and have set the bar much higher. The sucky commercial compilers of the past aren't really acceptable anymore.




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