Re: [ft-devel] C99, long long, and inline

[Roland Mainz]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to restart this discussion.
>
> *long long*
> Freetype emulates its own 64-bit arithmetic on LLP64 platforms (like
> Windows) in order to stay ANSI. This is crazy in this day and age. We
> should go C99 by default and and provide 64-bit emulation only if a
> user begs for it in ftconfig.h.
>
> *inline*
> Freetype smooth rasterizer is very nested. I seems to me that gcc
> selects some inlining scheme. Does anyone know how to check this? I
> would like to have some control over inlining, which can be useful for
> performance tuning.
>
> *other C99 features*
> Please voice your opinion.
>
> Anyway, I am for the jump to C99 in 2.8.

I agree with that.

BTW: Did you try to compile freetype-current with "pcc" (=portable C
compiler) to verify?

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Bye,
Roland

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