public inbox for gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eric Botcazou <botcazou@adacore.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	polacek@redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gcc15] nested functions in C
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:42:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4530089.LvFx2qVVIh@fomalhaut> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5873bf9b-51f6-4db8-a182-86808fa3bb86@gotplt.org>

> I think from a language standpoint, the general idea that nested
> functions are just any functions inside functions (which is how the C
> nested functions essentially behave) is too broad and they should be
> restricted to minimal implementations that, e.g. don't have side-effects
> or if they do, there's explicit syntactic sugar to make it clearer.

That sounds totally arbitrary though.  Algol-derived languages have had nested 
subprograms for ages, e.g. Pascal or Ada, and they can be very useful.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-07 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01 19:33 [PATCH] gcc: Disallow trampolines when -fhardened Marek Polacek
2023-12-01 19:44 ` Andrew Pinski
2023-12-01 20:53   ` Marek Polacek
2023-12-01 21:14     ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-07 15:34     ` Eric Botcazou
2023-12-02  9:42 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-02 10:24   ` Iain Sandoe
2023-12-04 16:26   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 16:39     ` Andreas Schwab
2023-12-04 16:45       ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-04 16:46       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 17:21         ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 18:27           ` [gcc15] nested functions in C Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 18:48             ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 20:35               ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 21:31                 ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-05 12:32                   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-04 21:33                 ` Joseph Myers
2023-12-04 22:31                   ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-05 21:08                     ` Joseph Myers
2023-12-05 21:15                       ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-06  7:39                         ` Richard Biener
2023-12-04 18:51             ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-04 19:13               ` Martin Uecker
2023-12-04 20:15               ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-12-07 15:42                 ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2023-12-07 15:50                   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4530089.LvFx2qVVIh@fomalhaut \
    --to=botcazou@adacore.com \
    --cc=gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org \
    --cc=jakub@redhat.com \
    --cc=polacek@redhat.com \
    --cc=schwab@suse.de \
    --cc=siddhesh@gotplt.org \
    --cc=uecker@tugraz.at \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).