definition of "implicit" inline?

[Andreas Schwab]

Martin Reinecke <martin@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> writes:

|> Hi,
|> 
|> there seems to be a lot of confusion concerning the term
|> "implicit inline". Maybe it would remove some misunderstandings
|> if everyone would state clearly what he means by this term.
|> 
|> In C++, the expression
|> 
|>    long a;
|> 
|> is equivalent to
|> 
|>    long int a;
|> 
|> This behavior is called "implicit int".

In C, the term "implicit int" is only used for cases where the type is
completely left out, like return type of a function definition (and this
syntax has been removed in C99).  The "long" vs "long int" case is just a
different spelling for the same thing.

Andreas.

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