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From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: Linux C Programming List <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is the use of extern inline?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:18:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <466CD437.9000701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18019.47303.745646.965225@cerise.gclements.plus.com>

Glynn Clements wrote:
>> In man:gcc under -fkeep-inline-functions I first came across the usage 
>> of "extern inline". For normal functions, extern declares that the 
> 
> "extern inline" is meaningless. You can only inline functions which
> occur in the current translation unit.

If this is so, then why does the GCC manpage have this usage?

Shriramana.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29  3:49 What is the use of extern inline? Shriramana Sharma
2007-06-04  7:01 ` Glynn Clements
2007-06-11  4:48   ` Shriramana Sharma [this message]

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