From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1693 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2003 16:03:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1671 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2003 16:03:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com) (193.131.176.54) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2003 16:03:38 -0000 Received: from pc960.cambridge.arm.com (pc960.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.205.4]) by cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27293; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:03:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from pc960.cambridge.arm.com (rearnsha@localhost) by pc960.cambridge.arm.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h85G3WU19035; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:03:32 +0100 Message-Id: <200309051603.h85G3WU19035@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> X-Authentication-Warning: pc960.cambridge.arm.com: rearnsha owned process doing -bs To: Joel Brobecker cc: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, Jerome Guitton , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Organization: ARM Ltd. X-Telephone: +44 1223 400569 (direct+voicemail), +44 1223 400400 (switchbd) X-Fax: +44 1223 400410 X-Address: ARM Ltd., 110 Fulbourn Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 9NJ. X-Url: http://www.arm.com/ Subject: Re: [RFA] ARM : prologue scan In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:55:48 PDT." <20030905155548.GQ925@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:03:00 -0000 From: Richard Earnshaw X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 > > Supporting nested functions is at best a gcc extension (at worst it's > > a gcc hack). > > I agree if you are refering to C. But nested functions are legal in Ada. > Are there any other languages that GCC supports where nested functions > are also legal? Well, Pascal would be the obvious answer. But that's not integrated into standard GCC. R.