GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Fergus Henderson]

On 25-Feb-2003, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, that interpretation is  not that clear since that paragraph
> > specifically says the inline definition is an *alternative* to an
> > external definition.  Clearly, a second translation unit may provide
> > a (second) external definition.
> 
> Right, but it doesn't say that the definitions can be different;

The intent is certainly that the definitions can be different.
I know because I was involved in the committee discussions on this one.

Allowing the definitions to be different is needed to permit cases such
the use of assert() in an inline function in a header file which gets
included in different translation units with different settings of NDEBUG.

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