Defining a member function inside the class instead of outside in C++?

Question

By writing the definition of a member function inside the class in the header file as follows, I was told that compiler treats this as an inline function - hence , anywhere it e

Answer 1

You are right that the function with definition in the header file is implicitly "inline". But the inline keyword is just a hint to the compiler. Depending on its implementation, on the function contents and on the optimization flags, the compiler may decide to inline a function or not.