Rely on inline functions even if that causes warnings in older compilers.

So far we have worked around the fact that some very old compilers do
not support 'inline' functions by only using inline functions
conditionally (or not at all). Since such compilers are very rare by
now, we have decided to rely on inline functions from 9.6 onwards.

To avoid breaking these old compilers inline is defined away when not
supported. That'll cause "function x defined but not used" type of
warnings, but since nobody develops on such compilers anymore that's
ok.

This change in policy will allow us to more easily employ inline
functions.

I chose to remove code previously conditional on PG_USE_INLINE as it
seemed confusing to have code dependent on a define that's always
defined.

Blacklisting of compilers, like in c53f73879f, now has to be done
differently. A platform template can define PG_FORCE_DISABLE_INLINE to
force inline to be defined empty.

Discussion: 20150701161447.GB30708@awork2.anarazel.de

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 5787ae8ee38..ebb5cac31c7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11006,44 +11006,6 @@ _ACEOF
     ;;
 esac
 
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for quiet inline (no complaint if unreferenced)" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for quiet inline (no complaint if unreferenced)... " >&6; }
-if ${pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly=no
-  if test "$ac_cv_c_inline" != no; then
-    pgac_c_inline_save_werror=$ac_c_werror_flag
-    ac_c_werror_flag=yes
-    cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include "$srcdir/config/test_quiet_include.h"
-int
-main ()
-{
-
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
-  pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly=yes
-fi
-rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
-    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
-    ac_c_werror_flag=$pgac_c_inline_save_werror
-  fi
-fi
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly" >&5
-$as_echo "$pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly" >&6; }
-if test "$pgac_cv_c_inline_quietly" != no; then
-
-cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
-#define PG_USE_INLINE 1
-_ACEOF
-
-fi
-
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for printf format archetype" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for printf format archetype... " >&6; }
 if ${pgac_cv_printf_archetype+:} false; then :