Re: [avr-gcc-list] Improving in leaps and skips!

[Russell Shaw]

E. Weddington wrote:
> Björn Haase wrote:
>
> > > I'm not familiar with the test suite, and I'm curious: Where do these
> > > "nested functions" tests come from? That's not a C language feature. Is
> > > it C++?
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >   
> >
> > There is an extension to the c-language that is supposed to be 
> > supported by all gcc targets. The idea is to support functions inside 
> > functions so that e.g. something like
> >
> > int foo3 ( int func(int), int a)
> > { return a + a * func (27);
> > }
> >
> > void
> > foo (int a, int b)
> > {
> >     int
> >     foo2 (int c)
> >     { return c + b;
> >      }
> >
> >     return foo3 (&foo2, a);
> > }
> >
> > is considered to be legal code for gcc. The avr port does presently 
> > lack support for this extension.
> >  
> Bleah. :-P
> I wouldn't even know why that would even be used.

It would make it easy to convert large pascal code.