hubert-reinterpretcast wrote: > Can you give some context for why someone would want to use this in practice?
One use case is object-file inspection: a user may want to run tooling on object files to study how functions are compiled under different optimisation options, or to perform checks associated with them. Without this flag, inline functions are not always emitted (even when they have external linkage). We received a user report of exactly this scenario. Users who also want non-inline functions with internal linkage to be retained for the same purpose may additionally need `-fkeep-static-functions`. Even if the user only needs internal-linkage functions to be retained, `-fkeep-inline-functions` is necessary to cover the subset that are inline functions: GCC's `-fkeep-static-functions` does not retain internal-linkage inline functions that are inlined into all of their callers. There is also the general migration-from-GCC scenario. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/218533 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
