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

On 1/19/2010 8:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net>  writes:
>> On tis, 2010-01-19 at 01:29 -0800, Kurt Harriman wrote:
>>> Or compiler switches could be set to disable all such warnings
>>> globally.  Warning 4514 is specific to inline functions; so
>>> maybe it would be alright to keep it turned off globally.
>
>> ... I think that would exactly be the right solution.
>
> I agree that that is a better/safer approach than using __forceinline.
>
>> Then just replace in those two locations __GNUC__ by __GNUC__ ||
>> __MSVC__ (or whatever the symbol is).  Or if you want to make it extra
>> nice, create a symbol somewhere like in c.h that reads
>
>> #define USE_INLINE __GNUC__ || __MSVC__
>
> Kurt's patch proposes to try to define USE_INLINE via a configure test
> rather than hard-coding it like that.  While I'm not entirely convinced
> that the configure test will work, I like hard-coding it even less.
> Let's try the configure test and see what happens.
>
>             regards, tom lane

I'll submit an updated patch.

Regards,
... kurt