On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:51:32AM +0100, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:30:08PM -0500, Jed Davis wrote:
> > It Would Be Nice If the compiler could attempt to decide on its own
> > whether a particular function should be inlined, since it's likely to
> > know more about the situation on a given architecture than we do.
> 
> That's exactly what happens. See -finline-limit.

Yes, but only within a compilation unit.  There are compilers that do
better as part of interprocerdural optimization during the link stage
for an executable but our current GCC is not one.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

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