Re: Questions about trampolines

["Giovanni Bajo" <rasky at develer dot com>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:

>>> Well as I said above, trampolines or an equivalent are currently
critically
>>> needed by some front ends (and of course by anyone using the (very
useful
>>> IMO) extension of nested functions in C).
>>
>> This is your opinion, but I've yet to find an actual piece of code in a
>> real project that uses that extension.
>
> I have certainly seen it used, but you may well be right that it is
> seldom used. It is certainly reasonable to consider removing this
> extension from C and C++. Anyone using that feature? Or know anyone
> who is.

Last time this was discussed on gcc@, there was an agreement that since we
have to support trampolines for Ada & co., we can as well keep the extension
in C, which allows easier testcases, reductions (as most developers do not
understand Ada) and let the feature be tested even within gcc.dg.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo