inlining

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Sat Jul 2 11:27:14 AEST 1988


In article <20520 at beta.lanl.gov> jlg at beta.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>... C doesn't do [inline function expansion (as I've pointed out before).
>The C language definition (such as it is) doesn't allow it.

Not so.  It merely (?!) makes it difficult.  (Tartan Labs `tcc' has done
inlining of static functions whose address is not taken for quite some
time now.  That is not what is desired in this case, of course.)

>The proposed ANSI C will, I am led to believe, address this issue.

It does.
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