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It's so widely used by OS software that you're likely using already, that it's unlikely to be removed and much more likely to be standardized. This is in fact how standardization ought to work - standardize the proven best practices.


I agree. But if we follow that logic then any compiler specific feature of either or clang is fair game, even if it’s not standard. MSVC doesn’t support it when compiling in C mode, for example.


> But if we follow that logic then any compiler specific feature of either or clang is fair game, even if it’s not standard.

Well, yeah...

How do you think Annex K got in?




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