Re: -Werror in test3-pre2

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
30 Jun 2000 11:25:45 -0700

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006301141140.353-100000@neper.ethz.ch>
By author: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@neper.ethz.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Another usefull compiler flag to add is: '-Winline'
> It warns if a inline function cannot be inlined. With this option and with
> -Werror we can eliminate all 'static inline' and 'extern inline'. And
> developers are sure that inline are really inlined.
>

Hardly so!

If you don't make it either "static" or "extern", each module will
contain a non-inline copy of the code for external callers!

However, under -Winline -Werror, "static inline" and "extern inline"
should be equivalent (although I personally prefer "extern inline".)

-hpa

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