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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> >
> > > I'm very happy to see this patch, and I hope the experiment works out.
> > >
> > > It looks like only the variant "inline" is probed for. I have found it useful
> > > to probe for "__inline" and "__inline__" first and prefer those. GCC disables
> > > the "inline" keyword under "-ansi":
> > >
> > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Alternate-Keywords.html
> > >
> > > Also, for MSVC, IIRC only "__inline" works.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback (and the later verification that MSVC only
> > documents __inline as supported).
>
> Note though that on older compiler versions it has only a single leading
> underscore: '_inline', so we need to be able to #define it to different
> values.
>
> But given that Perl doesn't use Configure on Windows I thought it wouldn't
> matter either way.
Thanks. Knowing that it will need to be redefined is useful -- I'm
restructuring the patch so that such redefinition is easier to do. (This
will also make it easier to catch the corner case of gcc -ansi.)
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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