On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:51:32PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Basically, I recommend adding "-Winline -finline-limit-1500" to the
> > default build while we discuss other options.
>
> I add -Winline but get no warnings. Why would I use -finline-limit-1500?
>
> I'm interested, but uncertain as to what difference this makes. Surely
> using -O3 works fine?
Different versions of gcc have different ideas of when a function can
be inlined. From my reading of the documentation, this decision is
independant of optimisation level. Maybe your gcc version has a limit
higher than 1500 by default.
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