On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:08:57PM +0530, Suseelan B Sarin wrote:
> Hi,
> Can I do "if ( InLnFn() )" where InLnFn is defined as a inline
> function. GCC did not produce any error. But is there a catch somewhere?.
> I doubt this, because "if ( { return 1 } )" causes gcc to produce an
> error. (Or, is my understanding of inline fns itself is wrong? Is it the
> complied object code for inline fn that will be inserted where it is
> called? )
Function declared inline is both syntactically and semantically
equvialent to a normal function. It just tells the compiler to put the
(compiled) code right into the caller instead of calling it if possible.
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