Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112828: Merge the specpdl and backtrace stacks. Make the structure of the

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:54 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > how to explain the
> > fact that revision 112828 produced unresolved externals for such
> > functions that were defined in the same file (eval.c)?
> 
> 112828 declared LISP_INLINE functions in eval.c.
> That wasn't right for C99 platforms, because
> in eval.c LISP_INLINE expands to plain 'inline',
> and C99 requires that if any module defines a plain
> inline function FOO (perhaps via a .h file), then
> FOO must be defined as 'extern inline' in exactly one
> other module.

So you are saying that the following is not valid C99, unless another
module defines 'foo' as 'extern inline'?

 inline int foo (void) { return 42; }
 int bar (void) { return foo (); }

That sounds strangely un-C-ish to me.

Thanks.