On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 17:32 +0200, Torvald Riegel wrote: > On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 17:59 +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote: > > Torvald Riegel <trie...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 14:09 +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote: > > >> (1) Does the approach seem reasonable? > > >> > > >> (2) Would it be acceptable in principle to add this extension to the > > >> GCC C frontend (only enabled where necessary)? > > >> > > >> (3) Should we submit this to the standards committee? > > > > > > I hadn't have time to look at the proposal in detail. I think it would > > > be good to have the standards committees review this. I doubt you could > > > find consensus in the C++ for type system changes unless you have a > > > really good reason. Have you considered how you could use the ARM > > > extensions from http://wg21.link/p0214r4 ?
BTW, have you also looked at P0546 and P0122?