const weak variables are inlined.

[Mark Mitchell]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> Yup.  As long as we don't substitute uses of the variable for the
> constant, we should be fine.  We shouldn't do this, because an
> alternate definition might define it to something else.

See up-thread for why many people disagree with the conclusion that we 
should not substitute the constant.  Do you also think that we shouldn't 
inline functions not declared inline when building a shared library?

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