On Thursday 10 February 2011 22:35:34 Walter Bright wrote: > Stewart Gordon wrote: > > On 09/02/2011 12:14, spir wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Walter states that inline annotations are useless, since programmers > >> cannot generally know > >> which function /should/ be inlined --depending on a variety of > >> factors, inlining may in > >> fact be counter-productive. > > > > <snip> > > > > I hate not being able to force functions to be inline. A consequence is > > that you can't fully interface certain APIs without an extra .lib over > > what would be needed in C(++). > > You cannot force inlining in C(++) either. The inline keyword is only a > suggestion.
True. However, IIRC -O3 in gcc forces inlining, so in some cases you _can_ force it (though that's obviously compiler-specific), but forcing inlining with -O3 does it for _everything_, so it's not exactly precision instrument. Regardless, I would _hope_ that the compiler would be smart enough to make intelligent choices about inlining. That's probably one of those areas that can always be improved however. - Jonathan M Davis
