Re: GCC 3.4 and broken inlining.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  9, 2004, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I think a better solution would be to apply the appended patch 

Agreed.  

> And then just mark the function you know needs to be inlined
> as __always_inline__.

It's probably a good idea to define such functions as `extern inline'
(another GCC extension), such that a definition of the function is
never emitted, and you get a linker error if the compiler somehow
fails to emit an error on a failure to inline the function.

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