Re: GDB scope does not work quite right for Pascal

levi
2002-02-01T12:29:36Z

> 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.

The thread
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-07/msg00714.html is
probably relevant.

Following on Joel's strategy (Ada) the first thing needed is probably a
testcase so that people know the status of the underlying code

Andrew