bug w/ inline of inline?

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Oct 18 06:23:00 GMT 2004


Eliot Dresselhaus <edressel@cisco.com> writes:

> In this example
>
>     static inline int f (int x) { return x + 1; }
>
>     static inline int g (int x, inline int f (int x))
>     { return 1 + f (x); }
>
>     int h (int x)
>     { return g (x, f); }
>
> is h supposed to optimize to return x + 2 or supposed to actually call
> f.

GCC is allowed to do either.  It would be good if it produced 
"return x + 2;"  Please file a missed-optimization bug report.

Note that declaring the parameter inline is incorrect C.

zw



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