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Except for _e.g._ memory alignment, or types of a given width (until C99).

For lots of us the extensions that gcc and clang support are part of C. So, a backend that emits C would get access to those things if it wanted.

Until you want to write code that works on platforms not supported by these compilers.

How many platforms does LLVM support that Clang does not?