binary_search, lower_bound and upper_bound inlining

[Paolo Carlini]

Dimitris Xochellis wrote:

>>we can definitely mark inline binary_search, very tiny, but frankly, for 
>>general use lower_bound and upper_bound seem too big and we risk a bad 
>>code bloat. 
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>I suspected so :( That's life anyway...
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Well, if you can provide unbiased, compelling evidence that code bloat 
isn't too big...

>>In general, anyway, you should refer to the gcc manual, there are 
>>various knobs you can turn in order to change the behavior of the 
>>inliner (-finline-limit=...)
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>I found nothing appropriate in the manual. (-finline-limit works for functions that are explicitly marked as inline)
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That's sad. You should tell all the people, the compiler people too not 
only the library developers: either the options are too hard to find or 
wrongly missing. Can you send a message to gcc@gcc.gnu.org?

Thanks,
Paolo.