Post #1981548

@Fiona typeof is the way that it is expressly for inter-language compatibility decltype chose a different keyword at the time it was introduced because C++ needs additional semantics that aren't in the GCC precedent and would retroactively break C if it was given that name the name was therefore intentionally left available by WG21 for the C Committee to do something with typeof can still be trivially implemented as a macro using features from if you need it for compatibility in C++ @typeswitch