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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
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Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> wrote:
: On Friday 14 November 2003 16:08, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
:> Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:
:> : Of course. But think about it: Isn't it a funny thing that you can do
:> : a thing efficient enough in Ada just to prevent a problem in C, which
:> : OTOH you even wouldn't have at all if you'd use Ada in the first
:> : place?
:> :
: 
: By the way, here is an extract from the linux kernel documentation:
: 
: 3) 'static inline' is better than a macro
: 
: 'static inline' is preferred over 'static __inline__', 'extern inline',
: and 'extern __inline__'.

So there is no inlining problem in C.
Is there still resitance to using a function then?
If so, is it an effect of a "C mindset"?


-- Georg