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It was back in the first .com wave, so 1999 - 2002.
> Was gcc an option at that time? Or did management require you to use the vendor compiler?
Customers did. Our software needed to integrate with their existing toolchains.
At least for our customers gcc was not a serious compiler, given the license and being that funny open source thingy.
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It was back in the first .com wave, so 1999 - 2002.
> Was gcc an option at that time? Or did management require you to use the vendor compiler?
Customers did. Our software needed to integrate with their existing toolchains.
At least for our customers gcc was not a serious compiler, given the license and being that funny open source thingy.