Re: Inlining vs the stack

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote:

> > > > > > "Mike" == Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:
>
>  Mike> On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Dale Johannesen wrote:
> > > We had a situation come up here where things are like this
> > > (simplified, obviously):
> > >
> > > c() { char x[1000000]; }
>
>  Mike> I think we should turn off inlining for functions > 100k stack
>  Mike> size.  (Or maybe 500k, if you want).
>
> Why should stack size be a consideration?  Code size I understand, but
> stack size doesn't seem to matter.

Sometimes it matters, as in the original example:

c() { char x[1000000]; }
a() { b(); c(); }
b() { a(); c(); }