Handling of extern inline in c99 mode

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Here is a review followed by a proposal.
> 
> How does this proposal handle the current problematic situation that
> -std=c99 is broken on Linux?

According to the proposal, we will restore the GNU handling for
"extern inline" even when using -std=c99, which will fix the problem
when using glibc.

(Then we will break it again in gcc 4.4, but by then we can hope that
glibc will be fixed, and we can force people who want to use -std=c99
or -std=gnu99 on GNU/Linux to upgrade to a newer glibc.)

Ian