On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 12:27 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 15 September 2014 12:07, Hei Chan wrote: > > Your statement that the trick "is now hallowed by the standard" > > makes it sounds like at some point GCC won't guarantee it work > > anymore. > > If GCC supports a feature, and that feature is now standardised, why > would GCC stop supporting it? Perhaps a language barrier issue? Using a less-common term like "hallowed" may be throwing Hei off the mark? "Hallowed" means "enshrined" or "blessed"; in other words, the standard has adopted the behavior as part of the standard. Therefore GCC will definitely not abandon it. Hei; it would help us greatly if you could configure your mail software to include some sort of quoting to the original text when you reply to email. Your responses and the text you are replying to look exactly the same and it's very confusing. Cheers!
