Guidance please: static or extern __inline__

[Kean Johnston]

>> That's a pretty neat trick.
> 
> 
> I know, we've filed a patent for it, wait for it, no, wait, ok, just 
> kidding...  :-)
Hehehehe :)

> 
>> I dont suppose I could trouble you to give me the voodoo required for
>> inserting an extra pushl before the call could I?
> 
> 
> Not sure exactly what you want, but with the below I think it will be 
> obvious how to do it.
> 
> void ioctl(int, unsigned long, char *) __attribute__((always_inline));
> asm inline void ioctl(int fd, unsigned long m, char *buf) {
>         movl    #42, 12($esp)
>         movl    fd, 8($esp)
>         movl    m, 4($esp)
>         movl    buf, ($esp)
>         call    _xioctl
>         xorl    $eax, $eax
>         leave
>         ret
> }
That does help with teh general mechanism. Unfortunately I can't
use inline, becuase ioctl is supposed to be declared as
int ioctl (int, int, ...);. I dont think you can have variadic
inline's can you?

This whole notion of fixing ABI issues in header files makes
my you-know-what's ache.  Of course the *rest* of the world
has decent symbol versioning, but some of us are left in the
approximate mid-90's :(

I think I may just cheat and declare ioctl incorrectly, and
put in the 3rd arg. I suspect that is the path of least
resistance, although I have no doubt it will break some
standard. But since I'm shooting for a working, real-world
compiler, I find myself strangely comfortable with the idea
of ignoring a miniscule subclause here and there in a
standard I'm not certifying to :)

Thanks for all your help tho. It's much appreciated.

Kean