------- Comment #16 from j at uriah dot heep dot sax dot de  2006-12-07 13:24 
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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...


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23479

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