From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: nested functions
Date:	9 Jul 2003 05:56:53 GMT
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ahelm AT gmx DOT net wrote:

> Could somebody enlighten me whether nested functions are a GCC or DJGPP
> extension or whether they are actually part of the C standard.

A GCC extension, as clearly documented here:

	info gcc "C Extensions" "Nested Functions"

Another way you can tell is that it will fail to compile if you put
GCC into ANSI-C-only mode (gcc -ansi -pedantic for GCC 2, something
else for GCC 3.x).

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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