Re: [ooc-compiler] Assignment of local procedures

[August K. <fus...@co...>]

Michael van Acken skrev:
> On 20/02/07, *August Karlstrom* <fus...@co... 
> <mailto:fus...@co...>> wrote:
[...]
>     Standard Oberon-2 does not support closures but even if it did I think
>     the result should be "1".
> 
> 
> Correct on both  counts.   gcc  does some tricky things to get local 
> functions
> to work via pointers, so the above code does not crash outright.
> 
> And the result should be "1".
> 
>     Comments?
[...]
> One fix would be to assume that any call to any procedure might change 
> any local
> variable if the address of a nested procedure is taken somewhere.

The most obvious solution, I guess, is to just follow the Oberon-2 
standard and disallow assignment of local procedures.


August