Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0.1 and 2.4.7-ac1

Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
2001-07-27T06:56:54Z

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - "static inline" means "we have to have this function, if you use it
> but don't inline it, then make a static version of it in this
> compilation unit"
>
> - "extern inline" means "I actually _have_ an extern for this function,
> but if you want to inline it, here's the inline-version"
>
[SNIP]
> ... we should just convert
> all current users of "extern inline" to "static inline".
>
Doesn't work for the ones in include/linux/parport_pc.h, which have
extern versions in drivers/parport/parport_pc.c. Gives build errors.

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