On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Ok, I didn't realize inline functions can't be called in a declaration. > > In C89, it can't, but most compilers will happily allow it. But if we changed > to an inline function, we would have to change the prototype to properly > return an error, i.e., > > PetscErrorCode PetscBLASIntCast(PetscInt,PetscBLASInt*); Ugly?. man, but I guess the right thing to do. Barry > > which obviously cannot be called in a declaration. It's syntactically > heavier, but more honest about what really happens. > > > If that is the case then I am fine with changing to an inline and thus > forcing it always out of declarations. > >
