GCC 4.7.0RC: Mangled names in cc1

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ludovic Courtès
<ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

> Right, but the nice thing with GCC plug-ins is they can be implemented
> using all GNU extensions.

at the risk of having this very discussion.

[...]

> What about writing it in C++?  Function objects could be passed around
> to achieve a similar result, at the expense of conciseness and
> interoperability with C.

Does not compute.  If you are using nested functions, you are not
interested in C interoperability in the first place.