https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119058

--- Comment #6 from Alejandro Colomar <alx at kernel dot org> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #5)
> (In reply to Alejandro Colomar from comment #3)
> > Not yet.  I commented it yesterday with Aaron Ballman during a break in the
> > C Committee meeting, and he was in support for this.  So, my intention was 
> > to
> > propose this feature first as an extension in GNU C (where _ExtInt() was
> > born),
> 
> _ExtInt was born in clang, not GCC.

I meant GNU C as including Clang, not GNU C as GCC.  :)

> I'd say feel free to implement this on a branch in gcc, as a proof of
> concept, you can cite that branch in the paper then, but it should be
> upstreamed into GCC only when the paper is approved into C2y.

Sounds reasonable.  That's what happened with _Countof, and I've liked it.

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