------- Comment #16 from j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de 2006-12-07 13:24 ------- The last update of this has been about a year ago, and talked about it not being done before GCC 4.1... Now that GCC 4.2 has been branched off, is there any news on integrating that patch?
There's one important political aspect of it. In the C99 rationale, the following statement has been recorded: ``A proposal to add binary constants was rejected due to lack of precedent and insufficient utility.'' Apparently, there *is* sufficient utility, considered among almost all programmers doing embedded systems. Many other compilers for embedded systems have already implemented that extension, but they are probably below the radar of the C99 committee. Now, if GCC were to adopt this extension, the "lack of precedence" statement would be no longer true when the committee were about meeting next time... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23479
