Optimizing C compilers, and their use...

[Benson]

All the time, on the net, in casual conversation, in literature and
especially in discussions of the forthcoming C Language Standard, I have
heard the statement:
	"You can allow/do/write <anything> because any
	 decent optimizing compiler will fix/compile it."
My question is:
	How many of you who say this (or even just how many of you
	on the net) have an optimizing C compiler?  And how many of
	those actually use them?
Until people have them, work-arounds ("kludges") will have to be.  And
until people use the compilers, just writing <anything> won't do.

						Bjorn Freeman-Benson

P.S. Oh, and what would you be willing to pay (up-and-above normal
C compiler costs) for such an optimizing compiler?  Remember - until
you have one, you can't take advantage of it, but them engineers who
wrote it have a done a lot of work...