Re: problems with compiling 2.1.45-7

Evan Jeffrey (ejeffrey@eliot213.wuh.wustl.edu)
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:58:02 -0500


>At 11:59 PM 7/16/97 +1200, Joseph Skinner wrote:

>d_drop (along with a bunch of other fn) is a inlined function in dcache.h.
>One does not generally put functions in .h files, there is a reason for
>this... Moving d_drop to fs/dcache.c and putting an extern def in dcache.h

But if you do that, then it won't get inlined. This sounds to me like it
should be declared "static inline" in the .h file to get the desired effect.

Am I wrong anybody?

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