For a long time I struggled to remember the rules for using inline in C. I think I've cracked it now, though. As often with C, the trick is to think about how it's implemented. It doesn't help that in C++, the programmer-facing semantics of inline are much more straightforward. If you want to hint that a function should be inlined, put inline (or, for a member function, define it within its class). inline int foo() { return 42; } // this is C++, not C! The toolchain takes care of the rest. Th...
