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From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
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Richard Henderson wrote:
> Because I use "extern inline" in the proper way.  That is, I have both
> inline and out-of-line versions of some routines.

Is there any reason not to just make the out-of-line version explicit?
i.e.:

	/* in some .h file: */
	static /*(always!)*/inline int my_func(void)
	{
		return FOO;
	}
	extern int OOL_my_func(void);

	/* in some .c file: */
	int OOL_my_func(void)
	{
		return my_func();
	}

It's a little ugly but there really aren't that many cases of this, right?
Or is this just the principal of the thing? :-)

-Mitch