Hi, There have been quite some "bug reports" for a project I work on lately related to nested functions. Although I don't know the internals of gcc, it seems that sometimes trampolines are used when a function pointer to the nested function is passed to another function. Two "bugs" have been reported: 1) It doesn't build under Mac OSX. 2) The program does not execute when the stack is not executable. The first problem is caused by apple, regardless of whether trampolines are required or not, the program, AFAIK, does not build. The second problem is caused because some OS'es have no executable stack. Redhat even removes the nested functions from our code so it builds for them. But of course it would be better for all of our users if it just works. I have two questions: 1) Is there a fix for this or has this been fixed? 2) What is the official stance of the GCC maintainers regarding this issue? It's a documented feature we like and we rely on. Please send me a CC when replying, I am not subscribed to this mailinglist. Thanks, Marco
