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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: inlining
Keywords: C FORTRAN exponentiation
Message-ID: <12279@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 01:27:14 GMT
References: <3136@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <19633@watmath.waterloo.edu> <20520@beta.lanl.gov>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <20520@beta.lanl.gov> jlg@beta.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>... C doesn't do [inline function expansion (as I've pointed out before).
>The C language definition (such as it is) doesn't allow it.

Not so.  It merely (?!) makes it difficult.  (Tartan Labs `tcc' has done
inlining of static functions whose address is not taken for quite some
time now.  That is not what is desired in this case, of course.)

>The proposed ANSI C will, I am led to believe, address this issue.

It does.
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