From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gcc-return-80240-listarch-gcc=gcc.gnu.org@gcc.gnu.org>
Received: (qmail 7982 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2003 09:47:30 -0000
Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Archive: <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/>
List-Post: <mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
List-Help: <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/>
Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org
Received: (qmail 7975 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 09:47:28 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193)
  by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2003 09:47:28 -0000
Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136])
	by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id BDCD514FD1; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:47:27 +0200 (MEST)
To: Martin Reinecke <martin@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: definition of "implicit" inline?
References: <3F28CFED.3020002@mpa-garching.mpg.de>
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
X-Yow: "THE LITTLE PINK FLESH SISTERS," I saw them at th' FLUORESCENT BULB
 MAKERS CONVENTION...
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:50:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <3F28CFED.3020002@mpa-garching.mpg.de> (Martin Reinecke's
 message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:14:37 +0200")
Message-ID: <je4r13rpsh.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg02290.txt.bz2

Martin Reinecke <martin@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> writes:

|> Hi,
|> 
|> there seems to be a lot of confusion concerning the term
|> "implicit inline". Maybe it would remove some misunderstandings
|> if everyone would state clearly what he means by this term.
|> 
|> In C++, the expression
|> 
|>    long a;
|> 
|> is equivalent to
|> 
|>    long int a;
|> 
|> This behavior is called "implicit int".

In C, the term "implicit int" is only used for cases where the type is
completely left out, like return type of a function definition (and this
syntax has been removed in C99).  The "long" vs "long int" case is just a
different spelling for the same thing.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."