C99 inlines

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 7 09:39:06 PST 2009


David Schultz wrote:
> I'd like the gcc in our tree to use the C99 semantics instead of GNU
> semantics for inline functions in C99 and GNU99 mode. The following
> patch implements this behavior.  It is based on a snapshot of the gcc
> 4.3 branch from March 2007, prior to the GPLv3 switch.
>   

Why?  I can imagine it improving portability to other toolchains like 
LLVM, ICC, etc.

I'm not opposed but seems like you should be clear.

    Sam



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