Minor nitpick, but inline and weak are not the same thing. Weak linkage is a property that is resolved by the dynamic linker (at runtime startup); inline linkag

Minor nitpick, but inline and weak are not the same thing. Weak linkage is a property that is resolved by the dynamic linker (at runtime startup); inline linkage is a property that is resolved by the static linker (at compile-time linking.) GCC calls inline "vague linkage" and it only uses weak linkage if the platform does not have COMDAT support: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vague-Linkage.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vague-Linkage.html