GDB scope does not work quite right for Pascal

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:57:32PM +0200, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
> >  There are several remarks to that bug report:
> >  1) I don't know at all how nested functions work in C
> >Are they allowed? 
> 
> 
> AKAIK no, they are not allowed, and this is the root of the problem,
> since gdb is written mainly by/for C programmers.

They aren't allowed by standard C.  GCC does in fact allow them,
although their use isn't recommended.  I think GDB's support for them
is somewhat crusty.


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