Re: Status of CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 17:33:01 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:

What about performance reasons?
We habe "inline" code in header files that heavily relies on being nearly completely optimized away after being inlined.

fair

Especially with -Os it could even sound logical for a compiler to never inline a non-forced "inline"'d three line function with 2 callers.

but you said "I Care about size more than performance". Your argument is thus absolutely incorrect.

The rules are simple:
- every static function in a header file must be __always_inline

wrong.


Your suggestion is possible, but please also send a patch that turns every "inline" in header files into __always_inline...

this is 1) insane and 2) if inlines in headers are so big gcc decides to not inline them.. they're too big and don't belong in the header.
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