> Followup to: <00ad01bddb0a$f525e820$04c809c0@Fake.Domain.com>
> By author: "Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I finally got the function definition. The problem was that I was compiling
> > my modules with just a gcc -c modname.c. Since the inlined functions in
> > asm/io.h are extern the compiler kept expecting a definition for __inw and
> > __inwc. This leads to another question, why in the world are the INLINED
> > functions in asm-i386/io.h declared as extern?
> >
> > BTW, thanks to all those who helped.
> >
>
> To keep gcc from generating a copy of the function body for every
> single module just in case some luser compiles without -O. It makes
> the error manifest. Read the gcc manual for more info.
>
> -hpa
> --
??? Isn't gcc suppose to replace any calls to inlined functions
with the function body. Inlined functions are suppose to be compiler
friendly ways of doing things that previously had to be done with macros.
If their is just one definition for the function, wouldn't this mean that
it was working just like an ordinary function?
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