GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:55:53PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
> >I think the inline keyword should be treated exactly in the same terms as
> >the register keyword.  That is, as a hint to the compiler.  As time goes
> >by the inline keyword will become increasingly meaningless, since the
> >compiler will be able to do a better job.  Forcing the compiler to respect
> >inline regardless of the consequences is a mistake.
> 
> If you want to change the inline behaviour, you need first to deprecate 
> with a warning the currently documented behaviour (in 3.2/3.3) and then 
> change inline to a hint in 3.4.

Huh?  No, "inline" was *always* only a suggestion.  We've just
changed the heuristics involved in the choice.


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