*ping* [PATCH] unit-at-a-time for java

Jeff Sturm jsturm@one-point.com
Wed Sep 3 22:08:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > Eeeeh.  So we only inline in order?  Nasty.  Still, I guess it's the
> > best we can do at the present time.
>
> Hmm just curious, what happens to the functions that gets inlined
> completely so they are never expanded then?

That never happens in Java.  Every function is referenced from the method
table, so has TREE_ADDRESSABLE set, etc.  (It's one of the reasons the
executables are so huge.)

On tree-ssa, there'll be "extern inline" methods available for inlining,
now that it handles functions as trees for bytecode.

Jeff



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