Jens Axboe wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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>>"extern inline" doesn't make much sense.
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>Yep, thanks.
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IIRC, there was a time when the extern inline construct was used to 
catch cases where the compiler did not inline the function (you'd get a 
link error).  Seems like it still works.  Try building the attached 
files in each of the following ways:

gcc -o foo foo.c

    and

gcc -O2 -o foo foo.c

In the first case, you get a link error, because there is no inlining.

-kimball