On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> I did some grep on codebase. I have not found any other instances of
> nested functions, but my regexps are not enough to be 100% sure.
>From Documentation/CodingStyle, written by the Head Penguin himself:
"Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
is ... well ... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
(a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right. Besides, functions are
special anyway (you can't nest them in C)."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I interpret it as a clear prohibition of using nested functions
in the kernel.
Regards,
Gabriel
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