On 6/2/2013 12:49 AM, Brad Roberts wrote:
Many if not most of those non-unix platforms use gcc, which is included in the set of compilers that does support it. The point is, which you didn't change, is that's it's a defacto standard even if not technically in the c or c++ language specs.
The curious question is why it never gets into the newer C and C++ Standards.
