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Re: [tree-ssa][rfc] plans for nested functions
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rth at redhat dot com, torvalds at osdl dot org
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:16:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [tree-ssa][rfc] plans for nested functions
By the way, an interesting historical note. If gcc had not supported
nested functions, then either we would have had to add them for Ada,
or we would have avoided using gcc for the back end. The fact that
nested functions *were* implemented was a major component in the decision
to use gcc. Note that other languages like Pascal also depend on this
mechanism. All the world is not C :-)