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Subject: Re: indent(1) support for gcc(1) 0b prefix
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Romain Tartière <romain@blogreen.org> wrote on 26 Apr 2008 23:35:
>...
> I was so wondering how useful(less) it was to support this extension in
> FreeBSD indent(1) program. The version of gcc provided with the base
> system does not support this syntax, and AFAIK, only the avr-gcc port
> support this kind of constructs...

It will be useful.
The new gcc 4.3 release supports this extension without addtional patches. I cite the 
changelog:
"Integer constants written in binary are now supported as a GCC extension. They consist of a 
prefix 0b or 0B, followed by a sequence of 0 and 1 digits."
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