The other guy’s remarks were based on the behavior of ancient compilers. I was describing current ones. In any case, my remarks mostly apply to LLVM too. GCC an

The other guy’s remarks were based on the behavior of ancient compilers. I was describing current ones. In any case, my remarks mostly apply to LLVM too. GCC and LLVM are the only compilers that matter these days. Intel replaced ICC with a LLVM fork and Microsoft’s compiler is used by only a subset of Windows’ developers. There are few other compilers in widespread use for C and C++. I believe ARM has a compiler, but Linaro has made it such that practically nobody uses it. Pathscale threw in the towel several years ago too. There is the Compcert C compiler, but it is used in only niche applications. I could probably name a few others if I tried, but they are progressively more niche as I continue.