[cfe-dev] Nested functions in Clang?

[Bataev, Alexey via cfe-dev]

Best regards,
Alexey Bataev
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Software Engineer
Intel Compiler Team

You could take a look at captured statements. I think they already have 
almost everything for nested functions.
15.09.2015 3:11, Rodney M. Bates via cfe-dev пишет:
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> On 09/14/2015 03:32 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:03, Rodney M. Bates <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop> 
>> wrote:
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>>> I intend to pass some kind of environment pointer, like a static 
>>> link.  The real question
>>> is, what does it point to?  As I understand, llvm locals can not be 
>>> used outside the
>>> function they are created in, so using a static link from outside 
>>> can't access the
>>> alloca values.  I am thinking the best way is to wrap at least 
>>> up-level referenceable
>>> formals and locals  in a struct, and have the static link point to 
>>> that.  This would
>>> include the next outer static link.
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>> The pointer will be to a struct that contains either the variables or 
>> the addresses of the variables, depending on the binding rules of 
>> your language.  Apple’s blocks ABI promotes all local accesses to use 
>> an indirection pointer and puts pointers in the (on-stack) context 
>> structure, and updates all of the pointers to be heap values if the 
>> block is copied.  If your blocks are only downward funargs, then 
>> allocating all relevant locals in the struct on the stack and passing 
>> a pointer to it down can have the same effect.  If your blocks are 
>> expected to persist after the function returns then you will need 
>> some form of memory management.
>>
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> We don't need persistence of activation records, so a single pointer 
> to one of them will work, if
> it can access all the variables.  It looks like wrapping everything 
> explicitly declared in a scope
> into a struct is the way to do it.
>
>> The MysoreScript language that I use for teaching implements a simple 
>> form of closure and has heavily commented code, which you might want 
>> to use as an example:
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>> https://github.com/CompilerTeaching/MysoreScript
>>
>> David
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