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Subject: Re: Some functions are not inlined by gcc 3.2, resulting code is
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 15:37, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:14:26PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Here is the cure: force_inline will guarantee inlining.
> > 
> > To use _only_ with functions which meant to be almost
> > optimized away to nothing but are large and gcc might decide
> > they are _too_ large for inlining.
> 
> Well, you can as well bump -finline-limit, like -finline-limit=2000.
> The default is too low for kernel code (and glibc too).

I would venture the reverse interpretation for modern processors, the
kernel inlines far far too much

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