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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,
	linux-ia64@linuxia64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GCC nested functions?
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:11:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040512181115.GE1397@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040512105924.54a8211b@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:59:24AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I used GCC nested functions in the (not released) bridge sysfs
> interface for 2.6.6. It seemed like a nice way to express the sysfs
> related interface without doing lots of code copying (or worse lots
> of macros).

Upward funargs are rather easy to trip over (though you haven't tripped
over them) and the runtime shits itself badly on all architectures when
they happen. It's too dangerous to be allowed to be used.

The code you posted doesn't really have a reason to use nested functions
(i.e. downward funargs aren't being used).


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-12 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-12 17:59 Stephen Hemminger
2004-05-12 18:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-13  0:07   ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-05-12 18:11 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-05-12 18:13 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 19:30 ` viro
2004-05-12 19:34 ` Gabriel Paubert

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