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From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is the use of extern inline?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:18:55 +0530
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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.