Re: [Tinycc-devel] Local procedures

[Peter Lund]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:22 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

> > Yes, see:
> > http://people.debian.org/~aaronl/Usenix88-lexic.pdf
> 
> That's a C++ feature, not a C feature.  I knew about that one.  I'm asking 
> about a C compiler.

Okay, let's try it from another angle.

Fire up pinfo or info or xemacs or whatever and look at the info file
for gcc.

>From the first page, select the link "C Extensions" (it is #5 here).
>From that page, select the link "Nested functions::As in Algol and
Pascal, lexical scoping of functions" (#4 in the menu, #5 overall on the
page).

The Usenix paper describes how they are implemented.

-Peter