Re: [bug-gnulib] [bug-gnulib] fts portability fix for hosts with unusual pointer semantics

[Bruno Haible]

James Youngman wrote:
> Paul> +static int
> Paul> +fts_compar (void const *a, void const *b)
> Paul> +{
> Paul>    /* ... */
> Paul> +  return pa[0]->fts_fts->fts_compar (pa, pb);
> Paul> +}
> ... compilers are likely to be able to inline the actual
> subroutine call away in any case.

How should this be possible? The common C compilers are ahead-of-time
compilers, and neither the call from qsort to fts_compar nor the call
from fts_compar to the user-provided function can be inlined.

Bruno