Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/7] softfloat: Convert `*_default_nan' variables into inline functions

[Peter Maydell]

On 31 January 2015 at 11:56, Maciej W. Rozycki <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> >  Hmm, so perhaps my idea for a later improvement:
>> >
>> >>  Eventually we might want to move the new inline functions into a
>> >> separate header to be included from softfloat.h instead of softfloat.c,
>> >> but let's make changes one step at a time.
>> >
>> > will actually have to be made right away.  I suspect GCC is more liberal
>> > here due to its convoluted extern/static/inline semantics history.
>> > Sigh...
>>
>> I would suggest just using "static inline", as we do elsewhere
>> for little utility functions.
>
>  Yes, that's exactly what they'd have to be moved into a separate header
> for.

Why do they need to be moved into a different header to do this?
I must be missing something...

-- PMM