Inlining function pointers

[Ian Lance Taylor]

yavuz yetim <yavuzyetim@hotmail.com> writes:

> I tried it on Mac OS X gcc-4.0.1 (I guess). The compiler complained. 

Sounds like a bug in that relatively old compiler.

> Now I'm in the office and I just tried it with "gcc version 4.3.3
> (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4)" and it compiled fine. So, it's probably an
> issue with the old compiler. But the question is, even though it
> compiles, can it inline both of the functions? The assembly output
> shows that it doesn't either of them, but I don't know if it is the
> right place to look:

When I compile your test case with gcc mainline, it inlines both
functions into main.

> trash$gcc  -finline-functions -S den.c

You need to compile with optimization (the -O option)--simply specifying
-finline-functions is insufficient.

Ian