Has Mark Hammond attained pariah status yet?

[Peter Hansen]

Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
> There are plenty of free C compilers for Windows: mingw, Borland,
> lcc-win32. lcc-win32 even comes with an IDE.
> 
> If you dig long enough on the Microsoft site, you can (at least you
> could at one time) even download a commandline version of the MS
> compiler. 

As best I recall, that version is wholly unsuitable for real production
use.  I believe it is the version without optimization (not the
"professional" edition) and the code it produces, when last I looked,
is _significantly_ larger and slower than the real version.

Okay for hacking, not for shipping.

-Peter