Re: [gnugo-devel] inline

[Gunnar Farneback]

Arend wrote:
> I don't know how __inline__ would be treated by other compilers
> (recommended in the gcc docs for inline use in ansi-compliant header
> files).

Extremely unportable I think. Identifiers starting with double
underscores are reserved for the compiler's internal use and there's
no telling what various compilers would do with it.

> > A precondition for using inline at all is that we can determine
> > whether it's supported through the configure mechanism. There's some
> > research left to do in this area.
> 
> Test whether
> "static inline int foo() { return 1; } int main() { if foo() exit; }"
> or a similar non-sense can get compiled?

It seems to me like some other project using autoconf must have come
across this before us and implemented a solution. Remains the question
how to find such a project, of course.

/Gunnar