Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >> As regards __typeof__,

I added __typeof__ when I personally was still working on GCC,
which was before version 2.

                              I recall a comment in a GLib header to the
  > >> effect that it was unusable under compilers older than GCC 4.8, so we
  > >> should also avoid it in the PGTK port.

Why can't the PGTK port build with recent GCC?  I suspect this has
nothing to do with __typeof__, but whatever its cause this problem is
important.  It should be fixed -- somewhere.

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