http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40054
--- Comment #7 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org 2011-07-03 15:43:39 UTC --- I think it will be very hard (if not impossible) to implement this, while maintaining support for statement functions at the same time. In particular, how is one supposed to interpret a statement like: f (x) = x + 1 Is this a statement function declaration? Or rather an assignment to the result of a pointer-valued function f, which is defined further down the road? In many situations this seems to be indistinguishable (or one can only decide it at resolution stage, where the function f has been parsed already, if it is there). Or am I missing some restriction in the standard? In any case, statement functions are obsolescent since F95, so would it be an option to not support them with -std=f2008?