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ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:

>jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
>
>> So that taking the address of a nested function in different scopes
>> causes differing trampolines to be created, and differing pointers returned?

Yes.

>It shouldn't need to do that.  At most one trampoline is ever necessary
>for a given nested function during its lifetime, namely the one that
>binds the lexically surrounding context that was current when the
>block containing the definition of that function was entered.

But that block may be entered multiple times, recursively, in which case
you need more than one trampoline for a single nested function.

(Jim's article still hasn't arrived here yet, so perhaps I am missing some
important context?)

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