On 23 January 2013 06:53, Alec Teal wrote:
Why not:
make an "optional keyword", "hard", have a meaning if before "typedef", I
suggest tokenising "hard" as a normal token (however it is processed now why
change it? I am not sure on GCCs exact grammar for c languages) but if AND
ONLY if it is before a "typdef" treat it differently, as far as I know a
typedef can only occur at the beginning of a statement so this should mean
it doesn't break anything.
Like other specifiers such as const and static, typedef doesn't have
to come first, i.e. this is legal, if unconventional:
typedef int hard;
hard typedef Int;
I think Basile's suggestion to implement it as an attribute is a
better idea, it makes it clearer it's something non-standard and
compiler-specific, and the grammar already contains attributes in
declarations.
Problems:
1)Not all compilers would be happy with this.
Fix:
I'm sure gcc must define something for the preprocessor that'll exist if and
only if GCC is the compiler?
Nope, Compilers that claim GCC compatibility also define __GNUC__, and
as has been discussed before on this list, if we added __REALLY_GCC__
then other compilers would just add that too.