Comparing KFileItems

[David Faure]

On Friday 26 October 2012 17:04:33 Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 10:16:50 Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> > > I was thinking the first one, but indeed Qt often does the second one,
> > > I'm not sure what the difference really is. Either one is fine with me.
> > 
> > in the end, I did not inline the function - before I pushed the
> > commit, I wondered whether making a non-inline function inline is
> > guaranteed to be binary compatible. According to Techbase, it's not:
> > 
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C++#The_
> > Do .27s_and_Don.27ts
> 
> More specifically, the non-inlined version needs to exist.

Oh OK, that sounds complicated for not much gain, you're right to have skipped 
this.

> The compiler is
> still within its rights to actually inline the code if possible (unless you
> mark it as no_inline, which takes extra effort on your part).
> 
> Or in other words, the compiler might do the right thing for you regardless.

Might --- or might not :-)

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