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Re: prototypes for nested functions

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: prototypes for nested functions
From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Date: 27 Dec 2000 21:05:37 +0100
Cc: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper),GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200012271959.eBRJxjl09447@neuralgia.linnaean.org>

>>>>> Roland McGrath writes:

 > This is a really stupid misfeature.  Requiring prior prototype declarations
 > for nested or static functions defined with prototype definitions is idiotic.
 > There is no possible rationale for such a warning.  We should not encourage
 > such idiocy by failing to complain at the GCC people.

I'll send a bug report for the nested case to them.

Andreas
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References:
- Re: prototypes for nested functions
  - From: Roland McGrath

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