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Re: [RFC] Eliminate NESTED_ATTR_FUNC


From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [RFC] Eliminate NESTED_ATTR_FUNC
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:08:34 +0200

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM, David Miller<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Yves Blusseau <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:30:01 +0200
>
>>
>> Le 1 sept. 09 à 17:43, Bean a écrit :
>>
>>> IMO, if we are to tackle the NESTED_FUNC_ATTR issue, we should do it
>>> properly by removing nested function, this also has other advantages,
>>> like allowing to run tools on systems like OSX that doesn't allow to
>>> execute code in stack by default.
>>
>> Agree with Bean, it's the last "issue" that made that we can't run
>> tool on OSX directly.
>
> I agree too, fixing the root issue would be a much better
> cure for this rather than alienating everyone who happens
> to be using older tools on their computer.
>
I can't agree with designating nested functions as root issue. Imagine
tomorrow we discover a bug in "for" loop compiling. This wouldn't be a
reason to replace all "for"s with "while"s. The root issue is compiler
bug and it should be fixed
The root issue is a compil
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