IFF it's ok to compile a GPL program with any compiler of your choice, and distribute it,
The problem is not the compiler but the library. On clear example is (in Linux) if you use GCC/GPP you can make a comercial program, but you cannot include it's _library_ because it's GPL. In this case a 100% free library CYGWIN exists to fill the gap.
The point is that the code generated by the compiler is 100% free, but it cannot run without a libray... but nobody prevents someone else to make his own library ;-)
MY INTERPRETATION is that if the library can be relinked by the user, then it can be distributed. So if the GPL part can be _replaced_ by one compiled by the user himself, it should be ok, but it seems that some people do not agree with me... :(
Alain
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