Re: GCC 3.4 and broken inlining.

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:08:21AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 07:09, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > the problem I've seen is that when gcc doesn't honor normal inline, it will
> > often error out if you always inline....
> > I'm open to removing the < 4 but as jakub said, 3.4 is quit good at honoring
> > normal inline, and when it doesn't there often is a strong reason.....
> 
> I'm busy for the next couple of days, but if you want, I'll make
> allyesconfig next week and go through fixing the compilation errors so
> that the < 4 can be removed. Rearranging code so that inline functions
> are defined before they're called or not declared inline if they can't
> always be inlined seems to me to be the right thing to do. (Feel free to
> say I'm wrong!).

one thing to note is that you also need to monitor stack usage then :)
inlining somewhat blows up stack usage so do monitor it...

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