Hi All,

    does anyone know (or even better has anyone fixed it) how hard it is to
make Slang inline methods that contain simple type declarations?

I would like to eliminate compile-time integer/pointer mismatch errors in
the new StackInterpreter I'm writing.  I'd like to say things like:

callerSPOf: theFP
"Answer the SP of the caller provided theFP is not a base frame.
 This points to the hottest item on the frame's stack."
self var: #theFP type: 'char *'.
self returnTypeC: 'char *'.
self assert: (self isBaseFrame: theFP) not.
^theFP + FoxCallerSavedIP + ((self frameNumArgs: theFP) + 2 * BytesPerWord)

but Slang refuses to inline anything that has C declarations.  I'm guessing
that the issue is moving the type information from the method to its inlined
form.  It took me half a day to discover where Slang refuses to inline
(should have looked in the obvious place CCodeGenerator>>collectInlineList,
instead of in the inlining code :/ ).  So I'm afraid to waste the time
trying to find out where the restriction bites.  Anyone know how to fix this
or better still have a fix?

best
Eliot
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