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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR c/8518

Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:23:19AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > ... the compiler gets confused because of 
> > the redefinition of an extern inline function:
> > 
> > extern int inline bar () { return 0; }
> > static int inline bar () { return foo(); }
> 
> Incidentally, this seems like error material.  The redefinition of an
> extern inline function should be neither static nor inline itself.

I'd argue that the redefinition of any function should be an error.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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