[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-20850) nested functions aren't portable

[Matt Jordan (JIRA)]

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Matt Jordan commented on ASTERISK-20850:
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Yes! If there was a mechanism such that the macro could be #ifdef'd to provide an alternative, we would absolutely include it.
                
> nested functions aren't portable
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>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-20850
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20850
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: 11.1.0
>         Environment: CLANG
>            Reporter: John Nemeth
>
> Nested functions are a GCC extension that is not sanctioned by C standards, thus the use of them is non-portable.  Specifically, CLANG does not support them.  CLANG is used by OSX, current versions of FreeBSD, and NetBSD is experimenting with it.  The RAII_VAR macro in include/asterisk/utils.h creates nested functions.  This prevents Asterisk 11.* from compiling with CLANG.

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