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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 01 May 2018 16:51:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: Suboptimal inline heuristics due to non-code sections
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:46 AM Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:

> My bad. It=E2=80=99s not the new-line. Let me do some more digging.

 From the gcc docs:

   Some targets require that GCC track the size of each instruction used
   in order to generate correct code.  Because the final length of the
   code produced by an @code{asm} statement is only known by the
   assembler, GCC must make an estimate as to how big it will be.  It
   does this by counting the number of instructions in the pattern of the
   @code{asm} and multiplying that by the length of the longest
   instruction supported by that processor.  (When working out the number
   of instructions, it assumes that any occurrence of a newline or of
   whatever statement separator character is supported by the assembler --
   typically @samp{;} --- indicates the end of an instruction.)

so it probably counts newlines and semicolons to estimate the size.

                 Linus