Re: [Tinycc-devel] Local procedures

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 1:45:47 pm Peter Lund wrote:
> 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).

Translation: gcc calls this "nested functions", which is why it didn't come up 
when I googled for "gcc local procedures".

Rob
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