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This (compound literals) also has the advantage of being strictly valid C, since compound statements are a GNU extension.

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I find your statement puzzling. A GNU extension is by definition not “strictly valid C”, compound literals are valid C because they are defined in C99.

Compound literals are valid C; compound statements, used in the macros in the article, are a GNU extension.

Oh right, I misread the previous comment, thanks.

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