[Swarm-Support] Was on vacation. What's all this crap about GCC disallowing nested functions? Does it mean anything for me, a Linux guy?

[Paul Johnson]

Is the nested function hassle also affecting Fedora Core Linux?

Before leaving town 2 weeks ago, I was digging into the problem that, 
with gcc-4.1 as the compiler, Swarm executables do not instantiate the 
lispArchiver or lispAppArchiver objects that Swarm programs expect to use.

Is that happening because of that nested function thing being discussed?

Why does Swarm compile at all if there are nested functions, when gcc is 
not allowing them?

From looking at this article that Marcus referred to

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2006/tn2161.html

I think I'm understanding what you are talking about, generally, but I 
can't tell if I should compile Swarm differently in order to make GCC 
use the nested functions on Linux OS.

PJ

ps. Oregon is pretty, and people there were nice to me.  In one 15 
minute stretch of highway, the outside temperature went from 64 
Fahrenheit to 107 F!  From Rain storm on mountainside to burning hot 
flatland.  Quite unbelievable, really.

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