On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:15:50PM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > I even don't believe that competitor proprietary compilers are much more > documented than GCC.
Depends. Vendors of compiler front ends (those sold for extension by others) provide very good documentation, much better than any that GCC has; this is necessary since they are sold to be extended by the buyer. I won't name names because it's inappropriate to plug proprietary software on this list.