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by ch_123 1766 days ago
Many of the proprietary C++ compilers (Intel included) are just repackaging of the EDG front end. The monoculture has existed for a long time in the C++ world due to the complexity of implementing the language to spec.

Honestly, I think it will be great to have one less set of compiler-specific oddities to worry about.
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MauranKilom 1766 days ago
MSVC does not use EDG for the frontend as far as I'm aware. IntelliSense does, though.
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bumblebritches5 1766 days ago
Not anymore, they changed that in the last few years
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account42 1766 days ago
Funnily, the only reason I ever used ICC was as a linter since it was the most easily available EDG-based commpiler for me and different frontends help find different bugs.
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