Re: [PATCH] git-compat-util: Avoid strcasecmp() being inlined

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:37:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I wonder if GCC has changed it's behaviour to more closely match C99.
Clang as a compatibility article about this sort of issue:

    http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html#inline

Interesting.  The ways the page suggests as fixes are

 - change it to a "statis inline";
 - remove "inline" from the definition;
 - provide an external (non-inline) def somewhere else;
 - compile with gnu899 dialect.

Right, option 3 seems perfectly reasonable to me, as we must be prepared
to cope with a decision not to inline the function, and there has to be
_some_ linked implementation. But shouldn't libc be providing an
external, linkable strcasecmp in this case?

-Peff