GCC's statement expression extension

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 10007280242.AA18275@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu >you write:
  >     If SPEC really contains invalid code, then we're between a rock and a
  >     hard place.  I don't think we should break the compiler just to
  >     compile a benchmark.  We could patch SPEC, and we can provide the
  >     patch to whomever we're allowed to, under the SPEC licenses.
  > 
  > Well the amusing part is that the piece of SPEC that won't compile is
  > GCC!  Indeed, both GCC 2.8.1 and the last pre-EGCS FSF codebase won't
  > compile with the latest GCC.
Inform spec if the code is invalid -- they issue patchrelease updates to
deal with this kind of thing.
jeff