"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I would like to come up with some construction like the 'extern > inline' that GCC supports for C mode, so that a.h could contain the > declaration *and* definition of 'bar', allowing code that includes a.h > to have 'bar' be inlined if the compiler chooses to do so (and leave > an external reference to 'bar' if necessary so that the version built > from a.cpp will be used). So far my attempts have only resulted in > various re-definition or re-declaration errors. There is no equivalent to GNU C's "extern inline" in C++. By the way, "extern inline" is now actually known as __attribute__ ((gnu_inline)), as C99 defines "extern inline" to mean something different. In C++ you can simply define the function inline in a.h, and not define it at all in a.cpp. The right thing will happen. Ian
