On 09/01/2012 05:09 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > Adding references to C would likely have consequences throughout the > entire language standard. Producing the proper specification for this > would be a large amount of work for someone with extensive expertise in > the standard (and in the C++ standard, for comparison), and is > prerequisite for producing implementation effort estimates, which as I > noted is also a large amount of work.
This isn't the only way to proceed. I'd encourage someone wanting to do this to branch GCC and implement a rough cut of the feature. That will provide useful information about the amount of work likely to be needed to complete the task. Also, it will provide the opportunity to try out the language feature to see how well it works in practice. Andrew.
