diff --git a/tdehtml/misc/htmlattrs.c b/tdehtml/misc/htmlattrs.c
index 779792e71..5ceaf351d 100644
--- a/tdehtml/misc/htmlattrs.c
+++ b/tdehtml/misc/htmlattrs.c
@@ -825,8 +825,9 @@ static const short lookup[] =
 
 #ifdef __GNUC__
 __inline
-#ifdef __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__
-__attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__))
+#else
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+inline
 #endif
 #endif
 const struct attrs *