Re: GDB scope does not work quite right for Pascal

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-10-12T10:16:00Z

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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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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