Inlining (was: GCC 3.3 release criteria)

[Timothy J. Wood]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Matt Austern wrote:
> Empirically, treating 'inline' as a directive rather than a hint will 
> make a lot
> of programs much worse.  This isn't conjecture.  We did the 
> measurement at
> Apple.  -fobey-inline is occasionally useful, but making it the 
> default would be
> disastrous.

   You could make -Winline be on by default instead.  This would let the 
compiler make the choice and would warn if an function was marked 
inline and the compiler disagreed with you (hopefully saying *why* it 
disagreed).

   This would help people get rid of extra 'inline' keywords and once 
that was done, they'd have a better chance of turning on -fobey-inline 
without terrible results (and presumably -fobey-inline would imply 
-Winline).

-tim