In <200006050156.e551uGE02072@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl) wrote:
> Jesse Pollard <pollard@cats-chateau.net> said:
> [...]
>> Naa -- its' called a closure. A standard operation that is normally optimized
>> to not need the stack. It works much faster that way.
> Sure. When you can handle "fatl function pointers", that is. Not possible
> in C, C++, ...
> Unwise gcc extension, if you ask me. But it is there...
What's more important is not GCC's C extension but STANDARD feature in
Ada/Pascal/etc. Yes, you can use "fat piointers" in Pascal and Ada and
"normal" pointers in C and C++ but it'll create more problems then solutions.
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