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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new DMA_ADDR_T_SIZE define
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
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On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:20, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Well, yes and no. Indeed those checks are optimized away, but as a result 
> of using them most data-access macros must be converted to inline 
> functions. And, last I heard at least, gcc was optimizing inline functions 
> much worse than preprocessor macros.

Not true, you can still use macros and GCC is saner with inlines
these days.

Your arguments are nice to encourage your patch to be accepted,
they are however not correct.

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