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by snogglethorpe 4967 days ago
clang and gcc are not very different from a user's point of view—clang deliberately supports a large number of gcc extensions and command-line options. For that matter, so do other C compilers (e.g. the EDG front-end, used by the intel C compiler).

So really these days "gcc" is as much a common dialect of C as it is a particular compiler.