It's possible to do without them, which probably makes the number of
supported compilers a lot bigger: they just need to support decltype()
or __typeof__.
That includes the Intel compiler. The old code was also apparently
working, but no one had realized the old workaround for some old version
was still in place.
The loop overhead is more or less the same. I have not done benchmarks,
but inspection of the generated assembly shows more or less the same
number of instructions.
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