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I hear this a lot of times that: “inline functions in C expose internal data structures” and that is one of the reasons some people do not like them.
Can someone please explain, how?
Thanks in advance.
Lets say I have a program code.c and a function func(). I can 1) make func() inline – which will expose whatever I do with my data-structures in code.c 2) I can put func() in a library and provide that as a shared lib (which is not readable – I guess ?? :p) —- Is this a correct analysis?
It would certainly be more transparent compared to something compiled into a library or object module. That’s because you can see the source code, and therefore write code which manipulates the data structures any way you want.
However, for non-line functions for which you have source, I am at a loss how that could be more protected.
There are software corporations which jealously guard their software source code, and only release object modules to be linked with, or shared libraries, or (dread!) .DLLs.