Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268019AbUIWRWp (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:22:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268176AbUIWRVn (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:21:43 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:22467 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268191AbUIWRVG (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:21:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:21:04 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list , rth@twiddle.net Subject: Re: __attribute__((always_inline)) fiasco Message-ID: <20040923172104.GN23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1095956778.4966.940.camel@cube> <20040923165026.GF9106@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040923165026.GF9106@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 14 On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:50:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > #define INLINE static inline // an oxymoron > > The // apart from being a C++ ism (screw C99; it's still non-idiomatic) > will cause spurious ignorance of the remainder of the line, which is Usual Albert's taste level aside, you are wrong. Comments are replaced with whitespace on phase 3 (tokenizer) and preprocessor lives on phase 4. IOW, that // will never be seen by preprocessor. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/