[Bug middle-end/20411] New: Templated functions no inlined at -O2

["chris at bubblescope dot net" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

I believe this is a known problem, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The inliner at -O2 will attempt to inline any small functions. It will not
however try to inline functions will external linkage, which includes all
templated functions.

As much C++ code (including libstdc++) contains many small templated functions,
this means it is necessary to mark all these functions as inline to ensure they
are even considered at -O2.

Example: given:

void foo() {}
void foo2() {foo();}
int main() {foo2();}

then main() is optimised away to an empty function at -O2. However:

template<class T>
void foo() {}

template<class T>
void foo2() {foo<T>();}

int main() {foo2<int>();}

leaves the calls to foo2 and foo in at -O2.

Is there a good reason to not pull inlining of small functions (which in C++
typically consist of simply calling a new function with almost identical
parameters) into -O2, even when they have external linkage? (or make an
exception for templated functions?)

-- 
           Summary: Templated functions no inlined at -O2
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: middle-end
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: chris at bubblescope dot net
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20411