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There's a very stable C compiler out there: Ken Thompson's 1990s rewrite of Dennis Ritchie's 1970s original. Unfortunately it wouldn't solve OpenBSD's problem, being too stable to have caught up with C99 and C++. But I find it interesting to see where Ken and Dennis took their language while the standards committee wasn't watching.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/2c

No, Apple's compiler group moves very fast. They cut from LLVM/Clang ToT for each new release.

In the case of Apple (LLVM/clang), having an in-house compiler gives you a certain level of independence from those kinds of problems.

Forgive my ignorance, but what does 'LTS' stand for?

Long Term Support

LTS: Long Term Support, it is a version that the editor/community will support for a long time. Here you find the policy for Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS .