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Re: Nested functions (was: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons)

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From: Andrew Koenig
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:37
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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.

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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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Nested functions (was: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons)
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Date: 15 Dec 92 19:37:58 GMT
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