yes, I know that nested functions are allowed in
other languages, but I had never seen them in C.
I didn't think they were ANSI C either (even C99),
but as I never bothered to check the spec, I didn't
know for sure.

Victor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik de Castro Lopo" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] how come this is allowed?


> Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>
>> But is this C99 or just gcc being naughty?
>
> Nested functions are allowed in many languages such as Pascal,
> Modula2, Ada, Ocaml (my favourite) and Standard ML.
>
> This however is a GNU C extention. Nested functions are not part
> of any ISO C standard. See:
>
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html
>
> Erik
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