Re: Patch: Remove gcc dependency in definition of inline functions

Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 11/29/09, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> writes:
> >  > (Does anybody still use a C compiler that doesn't support
> >  > inline functions?)
> 
> +1 for modern C.
> 
> > The question isn't so much that, it's whether the compiler supports
> >  inline functions with the same behavior as gcc.  At minimum that
> >  would require
> >         * not generating extra copies of the function
> >         * not whining about unreferenced static functions
> >  How many compilers have you tested this patch against?  Which ones
> >  does it actually offer any benefit for?
> 
> Those are not correctness problems.  Compilers with non-optimal or
> missing 'inline' do belong together with compilers without working int64.
> We may spend some effort to be able to compile on them, but they
> should not affect our coding style.
> 
> 'static inline' is superior to macros because of type-safety and
> side-effects avoidance.  I'd suggest event removing any HAVE_INLINE
> ifdefs and let autoconf undef the 'inline' if needed.  Less duplicated
> code to maintain.  The existence of compilers in active use without
> working 'inline' seems quite hypothetical these days.

I thought one problem was that inline is a suggestion that the compiler
can ignore, while macros have to be implemented as specified.

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