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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: GCC nested functions?
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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).

If nested functions are answer, you've got the wrong question...