Curly braces and then parens is a GCC extension. If you're going to do complicated macrology, GCC is the way to go because of typeof and a bunch of related ext

Curly braces and then parens is a GCC extension. If you're going to do complicated macrology, GCC is the way to go because of typeof and a bunch of related extensions designed to make macro use work. But it's still a staggering amount of effort and not worth it in the long run.