GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Michael Hayes]

tm_gccmail@mail.kloo.net writes:

 > My feelings exactly...for embedded programming and kernel work, you need
 > an inline keyword that consistently inlines, regardless of the setting of
 > the compiler switches or whatever.

I endorse this for small-scale embedded apps where you want the
convenience of a function call abstraction but not the expense of a
call instruction---some micros only have an 8 level call stack!

For general programming, I'm happy to defer to the wisdom of the
compiler.


Michael.