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

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> Is the nested function hassle also affecting Fedora Core Linux?
Don't know, it may sooner or later.   First thing would be to find a 
x86_64 or Intel machine with XD and make sure it is active.   Then write 
a simple nested function test case and see what happens.   Linux has a 
executable loader label, PT_GNU_STACK, that automatically allows 
executables to be tagged as needing trampolines by time compiler, which 
then enable an executable stack when Linux loads the executable.
> 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.
But there weren't core dumps, right? If so, I suspect some related 
problem, but not NX/XD itself.