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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: LLVM--Low Level Virtual Machine--and Ada
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Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> writes:

> PS: the only thing that needed new LLVM functionality,
> i.e. functionality that didn't exist and wasn't being
> worked on, was pointers to nested functions.

How did you implement those?

GNAT uses trampolines, which are less than ideal
for several reasons.

- Bob