What does 'inline' mean?

[Walter Bright]

On 6/13/2020 4:31 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> BTW: If you do dmd -c a.di you get no object file output. So .di files
> are treated differently

Yeah, you're right. Only in one spot, however, the .obj file is omitted. You can 
always rename it to .d


> I think it's interesting that DMD seems to emit some (all?) normal
> functions as weak.

It emits them all as COMDATs. This is so multiple definitions can be combined.

> So basically all that's missing for Manu's inline case would be to emit
> pragma(inlne) functions from non-root modules. Probably a 1-line change.

It's simply unnecessary for what Manu wants to achieve (header only libraries).