SPRU514Z July 2001 – October 2023 SM320F28335-EP
When declaring a function in a header file as static inline, you must follow additional procedures to avoid a potential code size increase in case the optimizer is not run.
To prevent a static inline function in a header file from causing an increase in code size when inlining gets turned off, use the following procedure. This allows external-linkage when inlining is turned off; thus, only one function definition will exist throughout the object files.
In the following examples there are two definitions of the strlen function. The first (Example2-2), in the header file, is an inline definition. This definition is enabled and the prototype is declared as static inline only if _INLINE is true (_INLINE is automatically defined for you when the optimizer is used ).
The second definition (see Example2-3) for the library, ensures that the callable version of strlen exists when inlining is disabled. Since this is not an inline function, the _INLINE preprocessor symbol is undefined (#undef) before string.h is included to generate a non-inline version of strlen's prototype.