What does 'inline' mean?

[Walter Bright]

On 6/8/2020 7:54 AM, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2020 at 14:45:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
>> Could you just use LTO for this?  LDC's LTO, for example, lets the linker 
>> discard unreferenced symbols.
> 
> LTO is a tool that attempts to solve a problem that does not need to exist. This 
> could be said about linkers in general.

In the separate compilation model, compilers know nothing about what other 
compilation units may or may not call. This is why elision of unreferenced 
symbols belongs in the linker.