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> Everybody except for GCC and the GNU toolchain (and its clones, Clang and TCC), who just have to be different.

So some of the world’s most popular compilers, got it.

If you took all the assembly language ever written, I'd wager a negligible amount of it was written for GNU as. So yes, they are the odd ones out.

Free beer has a great power and people go out of their way to keep getting free beer.

If GCC had been sold at Solaris C compiler prices it wouldn't be as popular.