conversion of the __inline__ and inline pragmas to RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE?

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 08:20 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/09/2011 09:49 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 11/04/2011 09:15 PM, Cudmore, Alan P. (GSFC-5820) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Is there an effort to convert the __inline__ and inline compiler
>>>>> pragmas into the RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE macro?
>>>>> I noticed that there is still a mixture of __inline__, inline, and
>>>>> RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE in 4.10.1.
>>>>
>>>> I would replace all __inline__ and RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE with inline. ISO
>>>> C 99 is now 12 years old.
>>>
>>> I would replace all inline and RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE with __inline__
>>> because
>>> the rtems toolchain is _far_ from being c99 compliant.
>>>
>> It sounds like Alan's requirements are to not use __inline__, unless I
>> misunderstood. So every inline should be RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE so that
>> inlining is a switch that can be turned off.
>
> We are not always going to be tied to gcc so anything that makes
> it harder to port to a non-GNU compilers is not a good thing.  Leaving
> macros like RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE in place was done to allow
> use of different compilers.  When added, we could still be compiled
> with non-GNU compilers.
>
> We already have bsp_specs which need to go away.  They
> are strictly gcc-isms and non-standard.
>
> I am in the experimentation and investigation stage of compiling
> RTEMS with non-gcc compilers. Please do not tie us to gcc
> any tighter than we already are.
>
So should we be converting all inline and __inline__ to
RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE and not introducing new inline or __inline__?

>>> The same consideration applies to "asm".
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> rtems-users mailing list
>>> rtems-users at rtems.org
>>> http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> rtems-users mailing list
>> rtems-users at rtems.org
>> http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users
>
>
> --
> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research&  Development
> joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
> Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
>   Support Available             (256) 722-9985
>
>
>