GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:28:51PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:
> 
> > <tr><td><a href="http://www.kernel.org">Linux kernel</a></td>
> 
> gcc 3.3 doesn't compile the linux kernels (2.4 and 2.5) very well
> currently because the inlining algorithm is too broken. The Linux
> kernel often assumes that functions marked "inline" get inlined and
> when they aren't it results in linking errors. In a few rare cases
> you also get silent miscompilation (this happened in the x86-64 port,
> now fixed)
> 
> Only good workaround currently is -Dinline="__attribute__((always_inline))",
> just using -finline-limit=hugenumber doesn't help.
>  
> Better would be likely to fix the inlining heuristics to honor the inline
> keyword better.

Especially nested inline functions.

	Jakub