are some good reasons for not doing this, even if the linting of
the code breaks.
1) If lint were ever to understand the stuff inside the macros,
that would break the checks.
2) There are ways to use __GNUC__ to exclude overly specific
code.
3) (Not yet practical) Lint(1) needs to properlyu understand
all of te code we actually run.
Complained about by: bde
Education by: jake, jhb, eivind
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