Questions about trampolines

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Robert Dewar wrote:

> 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.

Nested functions are used in the glibc dynamic linker.  I'm not sure why, 
and they may be inline nested functions whose addresses are never taken.

The extension is not present in GNU C++, only in GNU C.

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