template functions not inlined

[Joe Buck]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> 
> The following trivial example shows that template functions defined at
> the top level are not inlined by any version of gcc.
> 
> template<typename T>  int func (T t) { return 25; }
> void bar(void) { func (17); } 
> 
> Intel's compiler inlines func into bar.

GCC will inline the function if it is written

template<typename T> inline int func (T t) { return 25; }