Hello ANDY,
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:02:38 +0000, ANDY KENNEDY ANDY.KENNEDY@adtran.com wrote:
Attempted to build u-boot with gcc 5.x for mipsel 32. Result was that I get brokenness around arch/mips/include/asm/io.h and arch/mips/include/asm/system.h. The source lines all look something like:
extern inline void func() { func text ; }
Question: Is that valid C text? I have never seen such. Also, what does this mean from a header file? The way I read this is
extern = the following declare exists in global space (no code here)
inline = use this function definition in line in place of creating a text ref section
I would expect these two to be mutually exclusive????
Please enlighten me!
Actually, extern vs static takes a meaning for inline functions different from the one for traditional non-inline ones.
"If you specify both inline and extern in the function definition, then the definition is used only for inlining. In no case is the function compiled on its own, not even if you refer to its address explicitly. Such an address becomes an external reference, as if you had only declared the function, and had not defined it."
See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html for all the gory details on inline functions (this is for the latest version; if you're working with a specific, older, gcc version, look up the corresponding page, in case subtle changes were introduced).
Thanks, Andy
Amicalement,