> though some may feel the wrong way around Microsoft C behavior being permitted
The same extension can be enabled with `-fplan9-extensions`, might be more appealing to some!
The same extension can be enabled with `-fplan9-extensions`, might be more appealing to some!
One of the link of past discussions was from Apr 2018 and discusses it. At that time GCC -fplan9-extensions support was too recent (gcc-4.6) to be considered. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180419152817.GD25406@bombadil...
Now the reasoning isn't present in the patch but it probably is because they want step increments and -fms-extensions is a small-ish first step. Maybe -fplan9-extensions could make sense later, in a few years.
Since with the Microsoft extension, it was just waiting until enough examples were woven into the discussion to overcome the back and forth that was preventing "biting the bullet".
For this use case, at least, it feels like a CS version of racism. MSFT is bad, so no MSFT.
It largely clears up an idiosyncrasy from the evolution of C.
(but, as someone that briefly worked on plan9 in 1995/96, I like your idea :)
Relatedly, do you know if anonymous member unions originate with C++, Plan 9 C, or elsewhere?