From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756026AbXGIMWT (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752162AbXGIMWK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:22:10 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:55419 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751981AbXGIMWJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:22:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:22:40 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] include/asm-mips/processor.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline" Message-ID: <20070709122240.GY3492@stusta.de> References: <20070707010330.GY3492@stusta.de> <20070709102754.GB24487@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070709102754.GB24487@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:27:55AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:03:30AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > "extern inline" will have different semantics with gcc 4.3, > > and "static inline" is correct here. > > The idea was to have a linker error in case gcc should deciede for some > reason not to inline this function If that's the intention, please use __always_inline instead. > which as I understand will continue > to be the behaviour of gcc 4.3? In C99 (and therefore in gcc >= 4.3), "extern inline" means that the function should be compiled inline where the inline definition is seen, and that the compiler should also emit a copy of the function body with an externally visible symbol. You don't want this. > Ralf cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed