From 7cceb72cc310e784acd249ff1108793abe36293f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:23:41 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] [api] Inline force-variant ProtoSize calc methods (#14781)

---
 esphome/components/api/proto.h | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/proto.h b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
index d1c955b1fb..814a3f4456 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/proto.h
+++ b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ class ProtoSize {
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_sint32(uint32_t field_id_size, int32_t value) {
     return value ? field_id_size + varint(encode_zigzag32(value)) : 0;
   }
-  static constexpr uint32_t calc_sint32_force(uint32_t field_id_size, int32_t value) {
+  static constexpr inline uint32_t ESPHOME_ALWAYS_INLINE calc_sint32_force(uint32_t field_id_size, int32_t value) {
     return field_id_size + varint(encode_zigzag32(value));
   }
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_int64(uint32_t field_id_size, int64_t value) {
@@ -614,13 +614,13 @@ class ProtoSize {
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_uint64(uint32_t field_id_size, uint64_t value) {
     return value ? field_id_size + varint(value) : 0;
   }
-  static constexpr uint32_t calc_uint64_force(uint32_t field_id_size, uint64_t value) {
+  static constexpr inline uint32_t ESPHOME_ALWAYS_INLINE calc_uint64_force(uint32_t field_id_size, uint64_t value) {
     return field_id_size + varint(value);
   }
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_length(uint32_t field_id_size, size_t len) {
     return len ? field_id_size + varint(static_cast<uint32_t>(len)) + static_cast<uint32_t>(len) : 0;
   }
-  static constexpr uint32_t calc_length_force(uint32_t field_id_size, size_t len) {
+  static constexpr inline uint32_t ESPHOME_ALWAYS_INLINE calc_length_force(uint32_t field_id_size, size_t len) {
     return field_id_size + varint(static_cast<uint32_t>(len)) + static_cast<uint32_t>(len);
   }
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_sint64(uint32_t field_id_size, int64_t value) {
@@ -638,7 +638,8 @@ class ProtoSize {
   static constexpr uint32_t calc_message(uint32_t field_id_size, uint32_t nested_size) {
     return nested_size ? field_id_size + varint(nested_size) + nested_size : 0;
   }
-  static constexpr uint32_t calc_message_force(uint32_t field_id_size, uint32_t nested_size) {
+  static constexpr inline uint32_t ESPHOME_ALWAYS_INLINE calc_message_force(uint32_t field_id_size,
+                                                                            uint32_t nested_size) {
     return field_id_size + varint(nested_size) + nested_size;
   }
 };