From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 12116@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12116: merge from gnulib for extern-inline
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:09:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83obmsb5b4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501AEF0D.6030202@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:20:13 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 12116@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com
>
> On 08/02/2012 12:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > what's the story with the addition of stat-time.c,
> > utimespec.c, and u64.c, which just include the respective headers?
> > Where and how are these used, and for what purposes?
>
> These .c files instantiate the inline functions defined in
> their respective headers, by declaring them to be extern inline.
> Without these .c files, if a compiler decides not to inline one
> of those functions when compiling some other module, there might
> not be any code that actually implements the function.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-03 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 22:18 bug#12116: merge from gnulib for extern-inline Paul Eggert
2012-08-02 6:17 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-02 18:02 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-02 21:20 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-03 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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