Handling of extern inline in c99 mode

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:59:42PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> I'd rather simply fix glibc to work with C99 inline semantics.  For the 
> above you might use
> 
> #define tolower(c) __tolower_inline(c)
> static __inline __attribute__((__always_inline__)) int tolower_inline ...
> 
> and #undef tolower when defining the out of line function.  That would 
> apply to all cases where a user-visible function in a header is currently 
> inlined directly; for a purely internal function in the header, we can 
> arrange for all declarations to use "inline" without "extern" when in C99 
> mode.

Isn't the whole point that the current extern inline isn't
__always_inline__, but leaves it to the compiler's judgement?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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