Re: const versus __attribute__((const))

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nikita Danilov wrote:
>  > 
>  > These functions are available to userspace, though, and can be compiled 
>  > with -O0; thus not inlined.
>
> And future versions of gcc can be smarter.

Actually, the reason it doesn't use it for the inlines is because it 
doesn't need to -- it already has full visibility, so it doesn't need it 
to be spelled out.

So it would be an issue if gcc got dumber, not smarter.

	-hpa

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