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Work has restarted on BeanShell, the lightweight scripting engine for Java, aiming for a full 3.0 release following an extended period of inactivity. The updated version is planned to modernize the codebase and add long-requested features, including support for lambda expressions.
Martin Uecker details how GCC compiles nested functions that access variables from an enclosing function, explaining that such functions are lowered early in the middle-end. Variables referenced by the nested function are gathered into a single synthetic struct, with a pointer to that struct passed to the nested function instead of using older stack-frame-pointer techniques like those in Pascal.