I believe you need an extern declaration to make your code valid C. The other compilers mentioned may just be using the C++ rules.

Anyway, that might be a moot point because it looks like not even gcc 3.3.1 fully supports the C99 inline rules. I thought that was fixed by now. You can try using static inline instead, that's valid C99 and should work in GCC. For portable code you probably want to use a macro.

[edited by - spock on September 18, 2003 5:36:14 AM]

yeah spock.

I haven''t tried extern but i saw it mentioned as a possible solution. static inline DOES work and probably the solution I''ll have to use luckily i have been using macros for the inline definition for easier protability so it shouldn''t really be that much hassle.

Thanks for your help!