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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Nested functions (was: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons)
- Message-ID: <24413@alice.att.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:37:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24413
- References: <9234601.10277@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Dec11.231131.10956@microsoft.com> <24392@alice.att.com> <1992Dec12.162211.5076@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <24400@alice.att.com> <9235019.15484@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- In article <9235019.15484@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
-
- > Why are nested functions so hard? I think that
- > Gnu C's implementation of nested functions shows that it does not
- > cause any particularly difficult implementation problems.
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- The first time I tried to use gcc's nested functions,
- my program dumped core -- apparently due to a bug in gcc.
- The next version of gcc I tried worked. This suggests
- that the implementation isn't exactly trivial.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
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