Re: gcc inlining heuristics was Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implementadaptive spinning

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> so at least least for this case it works. Your case also doesn't work 
> for me. So it looks like gcc didn't like something you did in your test 
> program.

I very intentionally used _different_ types.

If you use the same type, gcc will apparenrly happily say "hey, I can 
combine two variables of the same type with different liveness into the 
same variable".

But that's not the interesting case.

			Linus
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