On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:03:35 +0200, Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> wrote: > On Sep 15, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The status is that there is no status, unfortunately (it's an >> interesting extension...). >> >> This extension is not presently implemented in the FSF GCC. >> AFAIU there is no reason to believe Apple will contribute patches to >> implement it. > > I think you may (are allowed to) port it from Apple GCC sources.
I don't have time nor skills but I think it's an interesting feature and I wouldn't like clang to be the only compiler to have it. Besides if gcc implements it too it would make a kind of standard... But maybe true C programmers find that it's nothing more than a syntaxic sugar but I would answer that C is just syntaxic sugar for ASM ;-)
