Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 19:20 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:04:22PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 18:38 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > > > So are you suggesting that we don't mark these functions 'inline', or are
> > > > you just pointing out that we'll need to drop the 'inline' if there is ever
> > > > another caller?
> > >
> > > I'd suggest to not mark them 'inline'.
> >
> > It seems you have found one more use for sparse. How about a tag
> > like __single_inline that will cause a warning if a function having it
> > is called from more than one place?
>
> Why should such a function be manually marked "inline" at all?
>
> If a static function is called exactly once it is the job of the
> compiler to inline the function.
It should indeed. This documentation says it does:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
That makes me wonder what is the problem.
Puzzeled
Oliver
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