> There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with

> There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with free software? Are you aware that gcc has probably just as much if not more money poured into it? It's not a product of a bunch of hobbyists. Most of the gcc code is done by contributors who are paid to work on gcc. A lot of it is done precisely by companies who are interested in gcc generating the right code for niche hardware.