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Re: __inline__ keyword in 3.0+?

On 11-Jan-2001, Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net> wrote:
> It's too bad the C99 committee devised an inline which conflicts with both
> gcc and iso C++.

There are legitimate reasons for that.
GNU C's `extern inline' requires unfortunate complications if you
are to avoid source code duplication.  C99's inline avoids that.
C++'s inline requires a more sophisticated linker model, and the
C99 committee didn't want to require C implementations to support that.

It might have been nicer if C99 had used a different keyword, I suppose,
but `inline' is the obvious one.

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