In some corner cases, the nRF Connect for VS Code extension would fail to resolve raw Zephyr SDK installations, and as a result, the C/C++ extension would force open an output panel saying it couldn't find the arm-zephyr-eabi-gcc compiler.
This has now been fixed, and the nRF Connect for VS Code extension will always validate the compiler path before passing it to the C/C++ extension to prevent similar disruptive UI elements.