Handling of extern inline in c99 mode

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Nov 1 18:21:00 GMT 2006


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I didn't pick up on that aspect.  FWIW, I'm completely happy with 
the proposal -- or at least as happy as one can be about changing the 
meaning of existing programs which conformed to our documentation to 
mean something else...

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
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