------- Comment #12 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-06-01 20:33 ------- > Oh yuck. I just checked n1124.pdf In Annex G.5.1, it explicitly > defines this behavior:
Note: Annex G is "only" informative and not normative; still it makes probably sense to follow the informative parts of a standard unless they clash with a normative part - or are intolerably expensive in implementation, compile, or run time. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40318