Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114447: Some minor cleanups of recently-added bool vector code.

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

24 sep 2013 kl. 13:37 skrev Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>:

> On 9/23/13 9:28 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>  (size_t_to_host_endian): Now static, not static inline;
>>  the latter isn't needed with modern compilers and doesn't
>>  work with older compilers anyway.
> 
> gcc 4.2.1, frequently the system compiler for OS X, will inline these
> functions if they are marked "static inline", but not if they're just
> marked "static". I don't think we should be removing annotations that
> help compilers that see common use.
> 

+1.  However, gcc is going away on OSX.  In XCode 5.0 it is some strange 
clang-hybrid (i.e. it claims to be both GCC and Clang).  But it will be many 
years untill we can ignore Gcc 4.2 and that generation, even on GNU/Linux, I 
still have some woth Gcc 4.1.

        Jan D.