Does anyone recall or have a reference as to why the inline keyword
is used "backwards"?  It would appear to be more useful at
function invocation than at function definition.
       -- Eric Gindrup ! gindrup@okway.okstate.edu
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Eric Gindrup <gindrup@okway.okstate.edu> writes:

> Does anyone recall or have a reference as to why the inline keyword
> is used "backwards"?  It would appear to be more useful at
> function invocation than at function definition.

Perhaps because otherwise the compiler doesn't have access to the
function definition at the function invocation, and so can't
inline anyway....
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