[airstrike] Windows problems

machiel at bsdfreaks.nl machiel at bsdfreaks.nl
Mon Jun 7 03:13:59 EDT 2004


> Hi,
>
>> Okay some information from my side
>>
>> I'm using the C++ compiler from MSVC 6.0, (/TP)
>>
>> I did this because he doesn't understand the construction INLINE
>>
>> The definition of INLINE = inline, but that doesn't make any sense.
>
> It's a define so that you can easily set it either to "Inline" i.e. the
> C99
> standard for inlining functions, or empty if your C-compiler doesn't
> support function inlining.
>
>
>> For example:
>>
>> static INLINE void clear_it(sprite_t **pos, sprite_t *it)
>>
>> C:\cvs\airstrike\src\sprites\bonus.c(105) : error C2059: syntax error :
>> 'constant'
>
> In 'core/compat.h' there's this piece of platform compatibility:
> -----------
> /* Define INLINE for different compilers. */
> #ifndef INLINE
> # ifdef __GNUC__
> #  define INLINE inline
> # else
> #  ifdef _MSC_VER
> #   define INLINE __inline
> #  else
> #   define INLINE
> #  endif
> # endif
> #endif
> -------------
>
> If MSVC doesn't recognize "inline" keyword at all, the above
> define should AFAIK be empty when _MSC_VER is set.
> If later versions of MSVC support inlining, then there needs  to
> be a check for MSVC version, so that it can be defined differently
> according to the version.
>
>
> 	- Eero
>

I will soon install Microsoft .NET (VC 70), VC60 doesn't support inline
and I will find out what happend if I use the VC70 compiler.

- Machiel




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