Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0.1 and 2.4.7-ac1

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Richard Henderson  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:28:32PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>> Just adding '-finline-limit=150' fixes all of them (critical limit
>> is somewhere between 120 and 150 on my kernel). As '-finline-limit'
>> is documented as being 10000 by default, it looks like that someone
>> changed default value to some really unreasonable value (probably 100).
>
>Yes.  The higher value resulted in much compile-time lossage on
>heavily templated c++ code, as it proceeded to inline everything
>in sight.

Having seen the discussion on the gcc lists, I can only heartily
approve.

I did some repmacement of "extern" into "static" in 2.4.8-pre1, but I
don't have gcc-3.0.x on my machines (too many headaches, too little
time). 

		Linus