Re: GCC 3.4 and broken inlining.

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I guess it could be readded if the inlining heuristics were fixed,
>  but even in gcc 3.5 it still looks quite bleak.

It's very simple.  For use in the kernel we don't *want* any inlining
heuristics.  What we want is:

a) If the programmer says "inline", then inline it.

b) If the programmer didn't say "inline" then don't inline it.

Surely it is not hard to add a new option to gcc to provide these semantics?
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