Re: RFC 46 (v1) Use features of portable, free compilers

[Tom Hughes]

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          Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> GNU CPP supports
> varargs macros, so why not ship GNU CPP with perl?  There is no GPL
> issue if it is only used in the build.

C99 supports them as well, so you're likely to see other compilers
start to support them. The C99 varargs macros are not exactly the
same though so relying on the current GCC varargs macros would be
a bad idea.

Tom

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