Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:58:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2 |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > torvalds@transmeta.com said: > > Note that with most versions of gcc this is all a complete non-issue, > > as most versions of gcc will _always_ inline a function that the user > > has asked to be inlined. So the issue seldom actually comes up. > > I thought that 'extern inline' was in fact the intended usage. That way, if > gcc decides it's not going to obey our explicit instruction to inline a > certain function, we get to know about it.
And what could we do about it? Basically nothing.
So we might as well use "static inline".
Linus
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