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From: keffer@SPERM.OCEAN.WASHINGTON.EDU (Tom Keffer)
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Subject: static functions
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Date: 9 Sep 89 23:51:31 GMT
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Michael,

	This goes back to an earlier discussion we had as to whether
-finline-functions should be the default.  Consider the following:

#ifdef DEBUG
#define Inline static
#else
#define Inline inline

class Foo {
	void bar();
};

Inline bar() { /* a definition */ }

This is how I have been using the inline qualifier: make it static if
you are debugging.  

Now the problem.  Cfront 2.0 squawks at this with the error "static
specified for qualified name bar()".  If the definition is static,
the declaration must be static (in which case "this" is not defined
under 2.0), clearly not what we mean here.  Personally, I think this
is stupid, but it's their compiler.  

So, the choice is whether to make g++ compliant, or ignore the whole
thing.  

A cavaet: I have not tested this myself because I do not have access
to a 2.0 compiler.  It is being passed on by a user of my vector
package.  

-tk

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