To: "Steve Snyder" <ssnyder AT indy DOT net>
cc: "EGCS Mailing List" <egcs AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "PGCC Mailing List" <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Questions on inlining of code 
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:29:24 MST.
             <199903181530 DOT KAA01307 AT indy3 DOT indy DOT net> 
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:03:43 -0700
Message-ID: <16550.921776623@hurl.cygnus.com>
From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT hurl DOT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com


  In message <199903181530 DOT KAA01307 AT indy3 DOT indy DOT net>you write:
  > Two question on inlining of code in egcs/pgcc:
  > 
  > 1. Is it possible to disable automatic inlining (compiler switches -O3 or 
  > -finline) while still respecting the inline declaration in the source code?
  > I'd like to compile with max optimization (-O6) while avoiding the bloat 
  > that comes with aggressive inlining of code.  At the same time, though, I 
  > don't want to disabled the inlining of code explicitly declared as such.
The only difference between -O2 and -On for n > 2 is automatic function
inlining.  So, just use -O2.


  > 2. Does aggressive inlining of code make any sense on a Pentium+ CPU?
Maybe.  Depends on the precise situation.

jeff