I guess I could have worded my email a bit better. Of course I don't assume that the GCC developers are ignoring standards. Nor do I think any of us are unaware of GCC's ability to support a standard and have extensions to it that go beyond the standard. So I simply want to suggest to the proper people (who hopefully are reading this ;) that perhaps the mission statement should include something about the GCC project efforts to encompass programming language standards and then go beyond them whenever necessary in order to make the compiler even more useful.
-John
