Re: documentation on inlining model needed

["Alexey Smirnov" <alexey at cs dot sunysb dot edu>]

> > Recently, I'm very interested in the inlining model of gcc.I need a
> > detailed documentation describing how the inlining is implemented in
> > gcc 4.0. Anybody who has been or is working on it please send me a
> > documentation. I'd really appreciate your help.

> There is no such documentation; you're going to have to look at the 
> source.
> The mechanism of actually duplicating a function body and substituting it
> for a call is in tree-inline.c. The decision about which calls to expand
> inline is made in cgraph.c and cgraphunit.c.

If you decide to write up your results please add them to the compiler 
internals Wikibook at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_C_Compiler_Internals
Thanks.

Alexey