13 Oct
2001
13 Oct
'01
6:50 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:57:32PM +0200, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
There are several remarks to that bug report:
- 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