From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Maurice Lombardi <Maurice.Lombardi@ujf-grenoble.fr>
Cc: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>, adam.oldham@marconi.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, core@freepascal.org, gpc@gnu.de
Subject: Re: GDB scope does not work quite right for Pascal
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:16:00 -0000
Message-ID: <20011012130740.A15975@nevyn.them.org>
References: <4.2.0.58.20011012170241.01770100@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <3BC720FC.90101@ujf-grenoble.fr>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00127.html
Message-ID: <20011012101600.XLpxbEvMYoSuoNOZny7yrCtViRcAgSkEDkA7_CXftr8@z>

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:57:32PM +0200, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
> >  There are several remarks to that bug report:
> >  1) I don't know at all how nested functions work in C
> >Are they allowed? 
> 
> 
> AKAIK no, they are not allowed, and this is the root of the problem,
> since gdb is written mainly by/for C programmers.

They aren't allowed by standard C.  GCC does in fact allow them,
although their use isn't recommended.  I think GDB's support for them
is somewhat crusty.


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