C++ 'extern inline' magic possible?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 03/01/2011 07:53 AM, David Brown wrote:

> If you want the compiler to inline functions where practical, even
> across different compilation units, and to use function calls when
> necessary, then you should look hard at using LTO. This gives the
> compiler the chance to inline function calls even though the definitions
> are not available in the compilation unit in which they are used.

That is on my agenda as well to investigate, but since GCC+binutils that 
support LTO are very, very new and won't be in LTS-type Linux 
distributions for some time, we can't quite expect our users to have 
them available.

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