Appendix A. Compiler Extensions

When writing portable code, you should stick to the standard, but sometimes you have to use compiler-specific extensions of the standard. This appendix lists some of the more interesting extensions in a few compilers. It is not a reference of compiler extensions, but more an illustration of the kinds of extensions that compiler writers choose to implement.

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