Questions on inlining of code

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199903181530.KAA01307@indy3.indy.net >you write:
  > Two question on inlining of code in egcs/pgcc:
  > 
  > 1. Is it possible to disable automatic inlining (compiler switches -O3 or 
  > -finline) while still respecting the inline declaration in the source code?
  > I'd like to compile with max optimization (-O6) while avoiding the bloat 
  > that comes with aggressive inlining of code.  At the same time, though, I 
  > don't want to disabled the inlining of code explicitly declared as such.
The only difference between -O2 and -On for n > 2 is automatic function
inlining.  So, just use -O2.


  > 2. Does aggressive inlining of code make any sense on a Pentium+ CPU?
Maybe.  Depends on the precise situation.

jeff