Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:

> 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.

For an example of "better", if there's some inlinable function that,
replacing a macro, is in a header file included by multiple
compilation units that call it out-of-line, then (as far as I know)
we'll get multiple copies of the function in the kernel image.

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