Re: Questions about trampolines

[Alexander Strange <astrange at ithinksw dot com>]

On Mar 14, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Marc Espie wrote:

> In article <4234D2CB.1010703@adacore.com> you write:
> > 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 use it; it involves writing less code than a userdata pointer would. 
I admit that I've never encountered any other code that takes the 
address of local functions, and I could easily use inlining to stop it 
using trampolines.