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List:       pcc-list
Subject:    Re: status of inline ?
From:       Anders Magnusson <ragge () ludd ! ltu ! se>
Date:       2008-07-28 11:11:20
Message-ID: 488DA958.1080309 () ludd ! ltu ! se
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Now at last (after 10 months?)  the inline syntax should at last be fixed :-)

-- Ragge

Marc Espie wrote:
> Tried to build some code which uses inline functions.
> 
> Specifically, I have a function that's defined as inline in a header.
> 
> It appears pcc is not able to inline it, and more annoyingly it's
> producing external linkage stuff from it.
> 
> If I annotate the function `static inline', this no longer happens.
> 
> But unless I'm misinterpreting my C standard, I read in 6.7.4.6:
> 
> `If *all* of the file scope declarations for a function in a translation
> unit include the inline function specifier without extern, then the
> definition in that translation unit is an inline definition. An inline
> definition *does not provide an external definition of the function*.
> 
> (emphasis mine)

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