On 30 January 2017 at 09:34, Xi Ruoyao wrote: > The C99 Standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 6.7.4) says: > > Function specifiers shall be used *only* in the declaration of > an identifier for a function. > > In linker.c, we use the function specifier ``inline" in a > *definition*. It's illegal. I'm pretty sure that's not true. See the example slightly later in 6.7.4 that uses inline on function definitions. A function definition is also a declaration, so it's allowed to have the inline specifier. The text you quoted means you can't put inline on declarations of variables or types, only functions.
