Add __builtin_complex to construct complex values (C1X CMPLX* macros)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>  Note that if you did
> allow such initializers for C, it wouldn't provide *expressions*
> usable in static initializers, since to make a braced initializer into
> an expression you need a compound literal and compound literals can't
> be used in static initializers.)

Thanks for the rationale.  I was puzzled until I read that bits.
I would have thought that the natural thing to do was to fix
C's compound literals so that they can be used in static initializers.
Do you know why WG14 did not want to do that?

-- Gaby