On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:08:30AM +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote:
> At the time this is rejected because GCC 3.2 makes other inlining
> descisions when "extern inline" is used instead of "static inline".
> Actually we modified lots of static inline to extern inline in
> 2.4 in November 2002 to reduce code bloat with GCC 3.2. I don't
> know if this still is true with 4.0.
>...
If you look at include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h, you see that in the
kernel, we #define "inline" to "inline __attribute__((always_inline))"
for gcc >= 3.1 .
In November 2002, we didn't do this in 2.4 kernels.
Can you test whether my patch makes any difference in the size of a 2.6
kernel with gcc 3.2?
> /Mikael
>...
cu
Adrian
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