Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] compiler-gcc.h: add gnu_inline to all inline declarations

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Nick Desaulniers
[off-list ref] wrote:

Functions marked extern inline do not emit an externally visible
function when the gnu89 C standard is used. Some KBUILD Makefiles
overwrite KBUILD_CFLAGS. This is an issue for GCC 5.1+ users as without
an explicit C standard specified, the default is gnu11. Since c99, the
semantics of extern inline have changed such that an externally visible
function is always emitted. This can lead to multiple definition errors
of extern inline functions at link time of compilation units whose build
files have removed an explicit C standard compiler flag for users of GCC
5.1+ or Clang.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

I suspect this will break Geert's gcc-4.1.2, which I think doesn't have that
attribute yet (4.1.3 or higher have it according to the documentation.

It wouldn't be hard to work around that if we want to keep that version
working, or we could decide that it's time to officially stop supporting
that version, but we should probably decide on one or the other.

        Arnd