InLine Forest (and Gump)

[piGrimm]

can someone eplain why there is plenty of {$IFDEF xxx_INLINE} in fpc AND lazarus sources???

to check what I am talking about please enter the regular expr

\$ifdef(.*)inline

into laz IDE Search >>> "find in files" tools and search for all sources of laz or fpc

SO!! If I want to build a project with INLINED versions of some units, I MUST check which predefined switches have been choosen by each contributor???

Noone did never plan to UNIFY these switches so I (and we) could compile INLINING OR NOT by using only one (or few) define(s)?
I ask because, I think I waste my time looking for inlines_defines into each unit my projects use
Thank you

[Thaddy]

Well some of it can be gone but:
- still not every platform can be inlined
- not all combinations of Lazarus and FPC support it.

But basically a lot of it can be removed by now. But hey.... put in some effort... would be appreciated....

[piGrimm]

(**) of course I do not ask for third part packages, but, as you all understood, for FPC/LAZARUS cores units and packages