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Re: Questions about trampolines

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr (Marc Espie)
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:27:55 +0100
Subject: Re: Questions about trampolines
References: <1110745459.14219.83.camel@localhost.localdomain><20050314131151.DF6A6E163@quatramaran.ens.fr>

espie@quatramaran.ens.fr (Marc Espie) writes:

> 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.

glibc once did, but that has been fixed long ago.

Andreas.

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References:
- Questions about trampolines
  - From: Øyvind Harboe
- Re: Questions about trampolines
  - From: Marc Espie

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