diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4298d9e307..db561afc3b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
     ['/usr/local/opt/openssl/include'] + \
     ['aerospike-client-c/modules/common/src/include']
 extra_compile_args = [
+    '-Winline',
     '-std=gnu99', '-g', '-Wall', '-fPIC', '-DDEBUG', '-O1',
     '-fno-common', '-fno-strict-aliasing',
     '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', '-D_REENTRANT',
diff --git a/src/include/macros.h b/src/include/macros.h
index e7be3f0610..b86baf3341 100644
--- a/src/include/macros.h
+++ b/src/include/macros.h
@@ -23,40 +23,9 @@
 #include <aerospike/as_error.h>
 
 // Cannot use multi-line macro because it cannot return a value.
-static inline as_status
-as_error_set_or_prepend_helper(as_error *err, as_status code, const char *fmt,
-                               const char *func, const char *file,
-                               uint32_t line, ...)
-{
-    if (!fmt) {
-        err->code = code;
-        goto RETURN_EARLY;
-    }
-
-    va_list ap;
-    va_start(ap, line);
-
-    char err_msg_to_prepend[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE];
-    vsnprintf(err_msg_to_prepend, AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE, fmt, ap);
-
-    // Prepend our new error message to the existing one.
-    char orig_err_msg[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE];
-    strncpy(orig_err_msg, err->message, AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_LEN);
-    // Handles edge case where max number of chars is copied (without null terminator)
-    orig_err_msg[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_LEN] = '\0';
-
-    as_error_setall(err, code, err_msg_to_prepend, func, file, line);
-
-    if (strlen(orig_err_msg)) {
-        as_error_append(err, " -> ");
-        as_error_append(err, orig_err_msg);
-    }
-
-    va_end(ap);
-
-RETURN_EARLY:
-    return code;
-}
+as_status as_error_set_or_prepend_helper(as_error *err, as_status code,
+                                         const char *fmt, const char *func,
+                                         const char *file, uint32_t line, ...);
 
 #undef as_error_update
 
diff --git a/src/main/exception.c b/src/main/exception.c
index 866cc56330..c751e413d2 100644
--- a/src/main/exception.c
+++ b/src/main/exception.c
@@ -26,6 +26,40 @@
 #include "exception_types.h"
 #include "macros.h"
 
+as_status as_error_set_or_prepend_helper(as_error *err, as_status code,
+                                         const char *fmt, const char *func,
+                                         const char *file, uint32_t line, ...)
+{
+    if (!fmt) {
+        err->code = code;
+        goto RETURN_EARLY;
+    }
+
+    va_list ap;
+    va_start(ap, line);
+
+    char err_msg_to_prepend[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE];
+    vsnprintf(err_msg_to_prepend, AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE, fmt, ap);
+
+    // Prepend our new error message to the existing one.
+    char orig_err_msg[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_SIZE];
+    strncpy(orig_err_msg, err->message, AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_LEN);
+    // Handles edge case where max number of chars is copied (without null terminator)
+    orig_err_msg[AS_ERROR_MESSAGE_MAX_LEN] = '\0';
+
+    as_error_setall(err, code, err_msg_to_prepend, func, file, line);
+
+    if (strlen(orig_err_msg)) {
+        as_error_append(err, " -> ");
+        as_error_append(err, orig_err_msg);
+    }
+
+    va_end(ap);
+
+RETURN_EARLY:
+    return code;
+}
+
 static PyObject *py_exc_module;
 
 #define SUBMODULE_NAME "exception"