Static, extern and inline in Objective-C

Question

What do static, extern and inline (and their combinations) mean in Objetive-C using the LLVM compiler?

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Answer 1

Justin covered most of it, but I found some other nice resources for those who want to dig deeper:

By declaring a function inline you tell the compiler to replace the complete code of that function directly into the place from where it was called. This is a rather advanced feature that requires understanding of lower-level programming.

Inline functions

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This SO question has an enormous answer about extern variables - variables defined "somewhere else" - but need to be used also "here".

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Static preserves variable life outside of scope. The Variable is visible within the scope it was declared.

What does a static variable mean?

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