From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 29367@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29367: 27.0.50; State and doc of `inline'
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:11:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8b52f4a-d1f7-4d5e-a262-38960d195fd6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po8bshvf.fsf@web.de>
> > What is the purpose of 'inline'?
> > 'inline' appears to be an alias for 'progn'.
> > Does it have some magic difference?
>
> The purpose seems to be to let the byte compiler inline
> function calls for efficiency reasons.
In that case, it would seem to correspond to what, in
Common Lisp, would be a declaration (`declare').
In Common Lisp, declarations are supposed to be
documented, even when implementation-specific. They
are something a user provides, so users need to know
about them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-21 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 19:10 bug#29367: 27.0.50; State and doc of `inline' Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-20 21:40 ` Glenn Morris
2017-11-20 22:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-20 22:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 16:11 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-21 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-21 16:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-21 16:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 17:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-11-21 17:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-21 16:58 ` Glenn Morris
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