correctness and comprehensiveness of compilers [was: Re: C compiletime]

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
>  icc may be fast, but that isn't enough. We use icc as a good
> compliance checker for standards conformance of our code ;-)

I've always liked having more than one compiler for a given platforms, 
for the very reason you cite. I find my code is more portable and 
reliable if I can make it work with several compilers.

That said, I've not found code that won't compile correctly with icc, 
but that may very well be the fact that I use it almost exclusively for 
code of my own invention, or standardized benchmarks that tend not to 
stress language features.

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