Re: Alpha: replacing "extern inline"

From: Richard Henderson
Date: Mon Aug 21 2006 - 17:54:09 EST


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:54:38AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Why?

Because it inlines when it needs to, and does not generate
out of line code when its address is taken.

> Can someone tell me which of the Alpha "static inline"'s need for some
> reason an __always_inline?

There shouldn't be any.

> Does the never defined __IO_EXTERN_INLINE still have any purpose?

It is defined.

$ grep 'define __IO_EXTERN_INLINE' * | wc -l
12


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