[patch] don't give bodies for both 'extern inline' and normal versions of a function in same file

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 05:33:00 GMT 2004


On Jul 18, 2004, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:

> Similarly, with gcc-3.5, atof.c needs to avoid defining the 'extern inline'
> version, else gcc complains "hey, you asked for both 'always inline'
> and 'never inline', please figure out what you want" and aborts.

This would be a bug in GCC.  Let's fix it there before it's released
instead of working around it in glibc.  extern inline is a GCC
extension, and this code is supposed to be accepted AFAIK.

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