Why are designated initializers not implemented in g++

Question

Is there any specific reason why has support for designated initializers not been added to g++? Is the reason that C99 standards came late and g++ was developed earlier and

Answer 1

C++ does not support this. It will not even be in the C++0x standards it seems: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.c++/browse_thread/thread/8b7331b0879045ad?pli=1

Also, why are you trying to compile the Linux kernel with G++?