Hi, On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> "extern inline" doesn't make much sense. It does. It's a GCC extension which says "never ever emit an out-of-line version of this function, not even if its address is taken", i.e. it's implicitely assumed, that if there is a need for such out-of-line variant, then it is provided by some other mean (for instance by defining it without inline markers in some .o file). Usually there won't be such need as all instances are inlined, in which case the out-of-line version would be dead bloat, which you can't get rid of without this extension. And if some calls are not inlined then this extension serves as a poor mans check, because a link error will result. All in all, it does make sense, and no it's not the same as a "static inline", not even if forced always_inline. Ciao, Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
