Problems building with extern inline functions in winebase.h

[J. Cone]

I would have thought any inlining would enlarge a program 
compared with single-copy-and-call functions.

Extern inline would imply that there had to be an un-inlined copy
somewhere to advertise to the linker, sort of like a weak symbol.

At 07:56 17/08/01 -0700, John Alvord wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Mike Bond wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:37:39AM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> > This patch should fix the build failure, though it doesn't explain why
>> > gcc doesn't inline such a simple function.

<snip: static inline causes more bloat than extern inline >

>Linux itself just went through a transformation of extern inline into
>static inline. It was triggered by a change in gcc, presumably for the
>better. There was some on-list grumbling, but the change was necessary.
>
>john