Re: [PATCH] 2.4: always_inline for gcc3

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-08-26 at 17:24, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> gcc3 did not inline big functions, even if they were marked as inline
> Thread:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103632325600005&r=1&w=2
> Things like memcpy and copy_to/from_user were affected.
> They were not inlined and you got tons of instances in vmlinux.

The more interesting question you want to answer first is - was
gcc right. Repeated code is bad for cache

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