Re: [2.6 patch] blackfin: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

["Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On 10/25/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:06:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> we'll have to either use the gcc attributes to force old inline
> >> behavior or use the gcc flag to force it
> >
> > We should probably have an extern_inline define then, assuming this is a
> > function that does exist in a linkable version already -- otherwise "static
> > inline" is correct.
>
> Since we #define inline to be __attribute__((always_inline))
> "extern inline" with the old semantics would only behave differently
> if someone took the address of one of these string functions.

that isnt what we intended ;)

> Does this happen anywhere in the blackfin port?

gcc is also free to ignore the optimized inline in favor of an
external reference
-mike