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Subject[patch] work around gcc-3.x inlining bugs

This patch:

--- 25/include/linux/compiler.h~gcc3-inline-fix 2003-03-06 03:02:43.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/compiler.h 2003-03-06 03:11:42.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
#define __LINUX_COMPILER_H

+#if __GNUC__ >= 3
+#define inline __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline))
+#define __inline__ __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline))
+#endif
+
/* Somewhere in the middle of the GCC 2.96 development cycle, we implemented
a mechanism by which the user can annotate likely branch directions and
expect the blocks to be reordered appropriately. Define __builtin_expect

shrinks my 3.2.1-compiled kernel text by about 64 kbytes:

text data bss dec hex filename
3316138 574844 726816 4617798 467646 vmlinux-before
3249255 555436 727204 4531895 4526b7 vmlinux-after

mnm:/tmp> nm vmlinux-before|grep __constant_c_and_count_memset | wc
233 699 9553
mnm:/tmp> nm vmlinux-after|grep __constant_c_and_count_memset | wc
13 39 533
Can anyone see a problem with it?

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