C++ inlining (request for better optimization).

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

>>>>> «Jason», Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> écrit :

Jason> The reason it doesn't work like you want it to work is that inlining is
Jason> done at function definition time.  If f() uses g(), g() must be defined
Jason> before f() is defined if it is to be inlined, so that its RTL can be
Jason> inserted into the RTL for f.  It sounds like you expect inlining to be done
Jason> on a level closer to the source code, so that when someone inlines f() they
Jason> encounter the call to g() and go inline that, but it doesn't work that way
Jason> in gcc.  RTL is too low-level for that.

	Anyway, can we hope it'll happen in the future ?

-- Gaby
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