Re: Emacs' C: static inline considered useless nowadays?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:33:18 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:08:38 -0700
> >>
> >> > See conf_post.h, around line 395: it explains the issue and the
> >> > expected usage of these in our sources.
> >>
> >> conf_post.h didn't answer my question since it seems to pertain to code
> >> in header files.
> >
> > Why would you need 'inline' anywhere else?
> 
> That is the question I started the thread with, in different words.  If
> you grep our sources 'static inline' appears in .c files, and I wondered
> why.

Never mind that; it's a historic accident.  Just use 'static' and let
the compiler decide when to inline.