Inlining?

[Tim Prince]

Philippe Schaffnit wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks a lot for your reply!
> 
> Sorry for not supplying an example! I am more like asking in a general
> way... I have set "-finline-functions" and
> "-finline-functions-called-once" but I have to admit that I overlooked
> "-fkeep-inline-functions": I'll try to add it!
> 
In a general way, the compiler must observe some target-dependent limits 
on the complexity of a function which is feasible for inlining. 
gfortran doesn't fall into the trap of certain commercial compilers, 
where the experts who work for the compiler vendor recommend splitting 
source so as to prevent the compiler getting stuck on inter-procedural 
analysis.  I trust you aren't running one of those scripts which use 
fsplit, or a more modern alternative, then put the pieces back together 
with a pre-link step such as ld -o bigobject -r littleobjects.  If you 
are speaking in a general way, such common practices aren't excluded.