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> If these bureaucratic parasites (but I repeat myself) don't want to
> use GCC, or Clang, then they can write their own compiler suite from
> scratch. Doubt that's going to happen, so this "investigation" is
> simply yet another frivilous waste of taxpayer dollars.

I won't blame this on bureaucrats.  Congress is who passed the law (in
1933).  These folks are just checking the boxes.