Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] Inline 3 functions | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:22:52 +0100 |
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Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 19:20 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:04:22PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 18:38 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > > > So are you suggesting that we don't mark these functions 'inline', or are > > > > you just pointing out that we'll need to drop the 'inline' if there is ever > > > > another caller? > > > > > > I'd suggest to not mark them 'inline'. > > > > It seems you have found one more use for sparse. How about a tag > > like __single_inline that will cause a warning if a function having it > > is called from more than one place? > > Why should such a function be manually marked "inline" at all? > > If a static function is called exactly once it is the job of the > compiler to inline the function.
It should indeed. This documentation says it does: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html That makes me wonder what is the problem.
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