[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> The patch seems ok, but I also wonder if the problem couldn't be solved
>> leaving the declarations by defining macros that expand properly to
>> extern/not and using them as
>>
>>
>>
>> INLINE_SCOPE_DECLARATION_KEYWORD SCM scm_cell (...);
>>
>> INLINE_SCOPE_DEFINITION_KEYWORD inline
>> scm_cell (...)
>> { ... }
>
> That seems quite complex to me (i.e., does not really improve
> readability/maintainability), for little in return since its use is
> limited to `inline.h' anyway.
>
> Currently, we assume that only GCC knows how to handle "extern inline".
> I'm not sure this assumption is true in practice (doesn't C99 specify
> it?), but it's probably "good enough".
That seems ok - I'm not 100% clear on what's in the standards here,
particularly about declarations and inline definitions.
