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Re: why Glibc does not build with clang?


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 02:34:24PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:22:31AM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > My opinion, FWIW, is that it would be really nice to have support for
> > LLVM and I think a lot of people would like to see it.
> > 
> > I suspect a wholesale patch set for LLVM support would not be readily
> > accepted but each change would need to stand on its own and not make
> > the code more complex or difficult to maintain. Personally I find
> > nested functions to be surprising and not very helpful for readability
> > but I am sure there are others who disagree with that.
> 
> I second this, especially the removal of nested functions.

I also strongly agree with the removal of nested functions.

Rich


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