Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] arm64: introduceaarch64_insn_gen_{nop|branch_imm}() helper functions

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 11:45:47 EST


On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:48:40 +0000
Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:


> > +}
> > +
> > +static __always_inline u32 aarch64_insn_gen_nop(void)
> > +{
> > + return aarch64_insn_gen_hint(AARCH64_INSN_HINT_NOP);
> > +}
>
> Either use plain old `inline' or write these as preprocessor macros.
>

I'm curious to why you say that? Preprocessor macros are rather ugly,
and in x86 we use "__always_inline" quite liberally.

-- Steve
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