Re: Current Status

Warner Losh (imp@village.org)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:13:23 -0700


: The compiler must support this keyword, and many do.
: The kernel is not, was not, and will never be ANSI C.

"inline" is not in the ANSI C standard (C-89 in case they went off and
did another turn while I wasn't looking). Therefore, the compiler
needn't support it. gcc -ansi, for example, will not support it.

Also, many *PROGRAMS* that are strictly ANSI-C compliant use the
kernel headers indirectly. These fail to compile with gcc -ansi.
They shouldn't. That's why inline needs to be mapped to __inline__.

Other than it looks ugly, is there a good reason to not do it?

Warner