Re: [patch] work around gcc-3.x inlining bugs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
6 Mar 2003 12:26:11 -0800

Followup to: <p73fzq067an.fsf@amdsimf.suse.de>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I submitted a similar patch (using -include) it to Linus some time ago.
> It's even required to work around gcc 3.3 inlining bugs.
> Unfortunately he didn't like it and prefered __force_inline
> to be added to the places that really rely on inline.
>

I would like to suggest that always_inline is defined as
"extern __inline__" plus whatever the particular compiler needs, and
that plain inline is redefined as "static __inline__" or whatever.

-hpa

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