[wx-dev] Re: SVN:(KO) [49602] Commit header changes for radio box fix.

[Robin Dunn]

Stefan Csomor wrote:
> Hi
>>  Are we sure that making a previously inline function non-inline 
>> preserves
>> the ABI? It's probably never effectively inlined as it's called virtually
>> usually but the compiler still may generate a different symbol for it
>> depending on whether it is defined inline or not.
>>   
> According to the KDE guidelines
> 
> You can ...
> 
> "change an inline function or make an inline function non-inline if it 
> is safe that programs linked with the prior version of the library call 
> the old implementation.

Just to be clear, this means that this particular change is safe because 
if an old app has it inlined then it will simply get the same 
potentially incorrect result exactly the same way that it did with the 
old wx lib.

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Robin Dunn
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