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| <h2 class="chapter">6 Extensions to the C Language Family</h2> |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Statement-Exprs.html#Statement-Exprs" accesskey="1">Statement Exprs</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Putting statements and declarations inside expressions. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Labels-as-Values.html#Labels-as-Values" accesskey="3">Labels as Values</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Getting pointers to labels, and computed gotos. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Nested-Functions.html#Nested-Functions" accesskey="4">Nested Functions</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">As in Algol and Pascal, lexical scoping of functions. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Typeof.html#Typeof" accesskey="6">Typeof</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"><code>typeof</code>: referring to the type of an expression. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Conditionals.html#Conditionals" accesskey="7">Conditionals</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Omitting the middle operand of a ‘<samp>?:</samp>’ expression. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Cilk-Plus-Builtins.html#Cilk-Plus-Builtins">Cilk Plus Builtins</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Built-in functions for the Cilk Plus language extension. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Other-Builtins.html#Other-Builtins">Other Builtins</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Other built-in functions. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Target-Builtins.html#Target-Builtins">Target Builtins</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Built-in functions specific to particular targets. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Pragmas.html#Pragmas">Pragmas</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Pragmas accepted by GCC. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Unnamed-Fields.html#Unnamed-Fields">Unnamed Fields</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Unnamed struct/union fields within structs/unions. |
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| <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Thread_002dLocal.html#Thread_002dLocal">Thread-Local</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Per-thread variables. |
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