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Re: [patch] don't give bodies for both 'extern inline' and normal versions of a function in same file
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 Jul 2004 02:33:40 -0300
- Subject: Re: [patch] don't give bodies for both 'extern inline' and normal versions of a function in same file
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
- References: <40FACCE3.2040307@kegel.com>
On Jul 18, 2004, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:
> Similarly, with gcc-3.5, atof.c needs to avoid defining the 'extern inline'
> version, else gcc complains "hey, you asked for both 'always inline'
> and 'never inline', please figure out what you want" and aborts.
This would be a bug in GCC. Let's fix it there before it's released
instead of working around it in glibc. extern inline is a GCC
extension, and this code is supposed to be accepted AFAIK.
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