From: levi@localhost.nc3a.nato.int
To: levi@localhost.nc3a.nato.int
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, 01 Feb 2002 04:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011012130740.A15975@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC720FC.90101@ujf-grenoble.fr>
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.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011012130740.A15975@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011012101600.XLpxbEvMYoSuoNOZny7yrCtViRcAgSkEDkA7_CXftr8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC720FC.90101@ujf-grenoble.fr>
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.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-01 12:29 UTC|newest]
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2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi
2001-10-12 8:29 ` Pierre Muller
2001-10-12 9:58 ` Maurice Lombardi
2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi
2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi [this message]
2001-10-12 10:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi
2001-10-12 10:40 ` Andrew Cagney
[not found] <A3E34B558F5CD211B4980008C7A4A99003883EC6@sparrow.gso.mcs.m arconi.com>
2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi
2001-10-12 16:38 ` Pierre Muller
2001-10-12 11:21 Oldham, Adam
2002-02-01 4:29 ` levi
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