Were GNU C extensions proposed for the standard?

[Peter da Silva]

> >(on a side note, why didn't ANSI C define a way to avoid shadowing external
> >variables in a macro defining?)

> I believe the Committee thought (as I do) that extending the preprocessor in
> that direction is a dead end, since inline functions provide a much cleaner
> and more powerful way to do most of the same tasks.

Is this really a reasonable argument, given that inline functions aren't in
the standard?
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