It would have a positive effect on the readability and conciseness of our (SSDCache) code if we could actually use compilers supporting this. Unfortunately, we'

It would have a positive effect on the readability and conciseness of our (SSDCache) code if we could actually use compilers supporting this. Unfortunately, we're stuck with older versions of GCC for the foreseeable future, and probably MSVC when we port to Windows. In hindsight I'm wishing we'd spent some time up-front getting to grips with something like SC [1] for generating C code from something slightly higher level to avoid some of the language's shortcomings that make the code overly convoluted. (some kind of usable closure-like mechanism would be fantastic, for example - callback-based asynchronous I/O isn't particularly fun in C) [1] http://super.para.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tasuku/sc/index-e.html http://super.para.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tasuku/sc/index-e.htm...