Re: [avr-gcc-list] Improving in leaps and skips!

[E. Weddington]

Rolf Ebert wrote:

> On Wed,  2 Mar 2005 11:30:22 +0100 (MET), Joerg Wunsch 
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Russell Shaw <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > > Bleah. :-P
> > > > I wouldn't even know why that would even be used.
> >
> > > It would make it easy to convert large pascal code.
> >
> >
> > Maybe it's also a side-effect of the GNU Pascal compiler?  I.e. if
> > your backend doesn't support that feature, you can't really support
> > Pascal either.
>
>
> It is not a side effect of the Pascal compiler.  The Pascal and Ada  
> compilers are a side effect of nested functions in GNU C :-)
>
> The mere availablity of nested functions in GNU C made it possible to 
> base  GNU compilers for Ada and Pascal on the existing GNU C compiler.
If that's the case, does the fact that nested functions don't seem to 
work for the AVR (according to Björn's view of working with the test 
suite) affect how AVR-Ada will behave? Will there be problems?

Thanks
Eric