Lennyk wrote:
How can I expose an inline function WITHOUT implementing it in the
header file?
What do you mean by "expose"?
If you want any caller of the function to be able to use it inline, you
need to implement it in a header file (not necessarily the same header
file where you declare it).
If you want callers from only the same cpp file where the function is
defined to have it inline, but callers from other cpp files to use a non
inline version, I'm pretty sure that behavior is possible in GCC,
subject to choosing the right command line switches. But I forget the
details.
I think you want callers from other cpp files to have the function
inline without seeing the definition. GCC doesn't do that. (It would
require a totally different interface between compiler and linker and
would require a lot of extra support in the linker).
