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1) There are more platforms than "GCC" and "Microsoft". Maybe your microwave oven runs code written in C++, who knows.

2) In 2005, some existing C++ standard libraries did not follow the standard very well.



Not only that, there are many more C and C++ compilers out there than just clang, gcc and msvc.




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