Hi Mark > I'm not terribly familiar with this proposal.
> Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested > address spaces is a fatal flaw, as long as the implementation otherwise > meets the spec, and as long as the implementation doesn't somehow make > it harder to add that. However, I'd like to know how final this > proposal is, and how likely it is to make the WG14 WP. According to: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=30822 .. the embedded C proposal as of 2008-01-18 is at stage 90.92. This suggests that it's very close to being incorporated into the standard. Have I understood that correctly? > As always, I'm concerned about putting things into GCC and then > finding out that we have to change them in ways that are not backwards > compatible. And, I'd like to know what our C maintainers make of the > proposal overall; if they see language issues, then we might want to > resolve those with WG14. Sure. Any comments from Joseph or Richard? Cheers, Ben