[Bug other/35042] Documentation for -finline-limit is incorrect

[rguenther at suse dot de]

------- Comment #6 from rguenther at suse dot de  2008-01-31 16:22 -------
Subject: Re:  Documentation for -finline-limit is incorrect

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, ddenisen at altera dot com wrote:

> ------- Comment #4 from ddenisen at altera dot com  2008-01-31 16:12 -------
> > @emph{Note:} there may be no value to @option{-finline-limit} that results
> > in default behavior.
> 
> That's also not user-friendly. When it is changed, it is not clear what is
> "more aggressive" inlining and what is not.
> 
> Why don't you make max-inline-insns-single = 5*n/2 and max-inline-insns-auto =
> n/2? This way, we have a default that is consistent with current settings and
> setting -finline-limit=180 gives you exactly the default.

Actually this would be a change in behavior (the current behavior is at
least present since gcc 3.3).  We can retain a hint at in which range
the default value lies for functions explicitly marked as inline (around 
900).

Richard.


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