Re: inline function
"Stephan T. Lavavej [MSFT]" <stl@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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My terminology - which may be more confusing than helpful - is that the
inline keyword activates the Partial ODR Exemption: you can have more than
one definition, as long as they're all the same. The inline keyword is
also a hint to the compiler that you'd like Actual Inlining to happen.
The smarter the compiler is, the less likely it will pay attention to you.
"inline is the register of tomorrow." (Member functions defined within
their class definitions are implicitly marked inline and get both the
Partial ODR Exemption and the hint.)
Templates also activate the Partial ODR Exemption, which is how both of
these things go in headers.
(I don't talk about "weak definitions" or "pick-any COMDATs" because those
are implementation details.)
True, but the implementation detail can be important if someone starts
thinking that the toolchain will warn if the definitions aren't the same, in
the same way it warns about multiple definitions.
So STL has stated the rule "You can have more than one definition, as long
as they're all the same". The practice is that the linker will just pick
one of the definitions, leaving the programmer responsible for assuring the
"all the same" part.
STL
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