Re: make memclass() an inline functino

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 00:33, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> memclass is too large to be a #define; it overflows 80 columns and does
>> not make use of facilities available only to macros.
>> This patch convert memclass() to be an inline function.

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:09:21AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Exercise care when doing this. Gcc sometimes optimises macros better
> than it optimises inline functions

I'll go over the assembly generated for i386, though I'm not entirely
convinced this is exercised in the fast path.

Cheers,
Bill