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> "__extension__" is just a way of ignoring errors when -pedantic is used.
> 
> I don't know why we use "__extension__" in <stdint.h>.

So that when users compile their applications with -pedantic, we don't
cause errors.  We have to be very careful about stuff like this in the
headers, but not in the library sources (since we control the compile
flags for those).

Headers must work correctly for any set of compile flags.