On inlining in C++ with unit-at-a-time code

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> But other than that, it looks really good.  We just had to change half
> a dozen packages were we had to add an attribute ((used)) since
> functions/variables where used only via inline assembly.

Couldn't/shouldn't the compiler detect this kind of use as well, or
are these cases where the name of the function/variable actually never
was used?

Gerald