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Re: [PATCH] remove nested function hack_digit


On 09/22/2014 02:43 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> So the closest approximation of
> what the existing code is doing is to put all the referenced parent locals
> together into a local struct and pass a pointer to that.

That description is no longer the closest approximation, that is *exactly* what
happens.

See the block comment at the start of gcc/tree-nested.c which explains how
insane the gcc 2.x scheme really was.


r~


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