Re: some trampoline data

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

Marc Espie wrote:

> This raises a few questions. In my opinion, the ada folks are the only
> people who actually use this kind of feature actively, so they probably
> should have a real say in the implementation (if I remember things right,
> Robert Dewar mentioned that the trampoline implementation of local
> functions was not efficient at all, and it would be better to have
> generalized function pointers).

I agree it would be a good idea to suppress trampoline generation by
default, since it raises all sorts of issues. Ada can always automatically
set the necessary flag until it gets around to eliminating the need for
these things.