On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:13, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:01:41 PM UTC-8, R. Andrew Ohana wrote:
>>
>> (Beyond the issue of fortran) I'm not sure if it will be possible to
>> build all of the sage libraries with clang. For instance, it currently
>> doesn't yet support nested functions, which I know at least ratpoints
>> uses.
>
> C does't have nested functions, this is a GNU extension.

True, however clang aims to be gcc compatible, and intends to support
nested functions at some (indeterminate) point in the future.

> Any code that uses
> them should be rewritten to be standards-compliant C.
>
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