Re: [PATCH v2] _Generic.3: New page documenting _Generic()

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 9/4/22 23:16, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> An always_inline function with no extern definition behaves as if it 
> were a macro (trying to take a pointer to it, or something that needs a 
> linker symbol, will result in linker errors, which is not the most 
> readable error, but good enough), in the sense that it doesn't have ABI 
> issues, but has the benefit of not creating code exponentially.
> 

Although of course not being able to take pointers to it is a problem 
for libc.  The macro with _Generic has the same issue.  libc seems to 
need preprocessor #if.

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