On Sat 20 Apr 2002 at 20:23:26 -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> Of course, IIRC the stack "needs" to be executable to support other
> generic features of e.g. our compiler.  (e.g. nested functions in C,
> which is a GCC extension.)
> 
> (some would say they're gross, but i've actually seen code that uses
> them...)

I hope you don't really mean to say that nested function definitions are
gross? They have been standard math and computing science textbook stuff
~ forever, and every serious programming language has them. (Yes I know
what that implies, and I mean it). Heck, even Perl has them.
Implementation is part of compiler design courses, too.

> cgd
-Olaf.
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