Re: What is the gain of "inline"

On Dec 10, 8:39 am, gwowen <gwo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can only think of one place where C++ mandates inline (in
the absence of an explicit "inline" and thats when the definition of a
member function is included in the class definition.  What are the
others?

Reference to r7.1.2 [dcl.fct.spec] in the C++ standard confirms this.
A function in C++ is never mandated to be inline. The keyword is only
ever a hint, but member functions defined with a class definition are
implicitly specified as if declared "inline".
.

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