Re: Broken 'C' compilation when building from Master with MSVC

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On 3 November 2015 at 16:19, John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk> wrote:
> On 3 Nov 2015, at 11:50, Simon McVittie wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the "inline" stuff should move to gtypes.h, or somewhere even
> > lower-level, like glibconfig.h?
>
> As an experiment, I tried moving the inline stuff out of gutils.h and straight into gtypes.h (at line 391 - 
> immediately before those newly added functions).  As far as MSVC was concerned it was perfectly happy - no 
> other changes were needed.  But I guess there could (potentially) be knock-on effects for other compilers 
> (unlikely perhaps - but non-msvc builds would definitely need to get tested).  Hopefully though, there 
> wouldn't be any issues for user apps because the very first thing gutils.h does is to #include gtypes.h !!
>
> This idea does seem like a good compromise to me and it does work for MSVC.  It'll get my vote if the other 
> compilers are happy too.  I can produce a patch if anyone wants to test it with gcc etc.

Could you please leave a comment on the bug I linked to earlier in the
thread, detailing what you found?

Thanks!

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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