RE: [lwip-users] PBUFS + LWIP 1.3.0 + memory allocation

[Kieran Mansley]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:24 -0500, Bill Auerbach wrote:
> 
> Worse is that every inclusion of pbuf.h that didn't define mem_realloc
> will
> cause this function to be defined.  Since it returns an argument,
> there will
> be compilers that generate code and create multiple copies of this
> function.
> It's small but still wasteful.  I believe function definitions are not
> appropriate in H files because you don't know how they will be
> handled.

In the case of lwIP where we can't rely on the compiler supporting
inline I agree.  functions defined in .h files should be avoided in
lwIP.

Kieran