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Best C Compiler?

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 7:46

What is THE BEST (or your favorite) C compiler?

1. gcc (GNU C Compiler)
2. pcc (Portable C Compiler)
3. tcc (Tiny C Compiler)
4. dmc (Digital Mars C compiler)
5. icc (Intel C Compiler)
6. lcc (Local/Little C Compiler)
7. other (please specify)

Explain why it is your favorite or THE BEST or why other choice(s) suck.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 16:27

The real problem is you guys are using a language that is over 30 years old. Is there any other industry that is using technology old enough to be your dad and succeeding?

I think not.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-02 18:00

I'm becoming tired of rewriting my code to conform to MSVC's C99 noncompliance, shit sucks.
GCC is better in that regard, and for quick hacks it has some nice nonstandard features like nested functions.

GCC doesn't optimize very well though, and I hear the code is intentionally kept a mess by RMS just to make sure people can't connect proprietary frontends/backends to it, because... just because.
Does anyone know of a compiler that will inline calls to function pointers, especially for expanding qsort and similar callback functions?

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