Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: Don't redefine 'inline'

[Eric Blake]

On 02/12/2016 06:24 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 February 2016 at 18:49, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Actively redefining 'inline' is wrong for C++, where gcc has an
>> extension 'inline namespace' which fails to compile if the
>> keyword 'inline' is replaced by a macro expansion.  This will
>> matter once we start to include "qemu/osdep.h" first from C++
>> files, depending also on whether the system headers are new
>> enough to be using the gcc extension.
>>
>> But rather than just guard things by __cplusplus, let's look at
>> the overall picture.  Commit df2542c737ea2 in 2007 defined 'inline'
>> to the gcc attribute __always_inline__, with the rationale "To
>> avoid discarded inlining bug".  But compilers have improved since
>> then, and we are probably better off trusting the compiler rather
>> than trying to force its hand.
>>
>> So just nuke our craziness.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> 
> (and tested that it passes my usual merge build tests).
> 
> Does this patch suffice to get your system to build all
> my clean-includes patches?

Yes.

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