Re: Is extern inline -> static inline OK?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:26:04AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >  From what I have read, for either 'extern inline' or 'static inline'
> > the compiler is free to not inline the code. Is this wrong?
> 
> Yes, it's wrong in current Linux 2.6. It currently defines inline to
> inline __attribute__((always_inline))
>...

To be more exact:

It's defined this way in both 2.4 and 2.6, but only for gcc >= 3.1 
(which support __attribute__((always_inline)) ).

> Hope this helps,
> 
> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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