Questions about trampolines

[Eric Botcazou]

> Zack says in his post that the Ada and Pascal nested functions do not
> use trampolines.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-03/msg00642.html

You misread.  Pointers to nested functions always require trampolines.

> The main advantage I see of having nested functions & trampolines in C
> is that they will see more testing. I think it would be really tough
> for, say Ada, to rely on features in the backend that are not used at
> all by C/C++.

That's already the case for other features, although these are primarily 
middle-end features.

-- 
Eric Botcazou