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From: der.herr@hofr.at (Nicholas Mc Guire)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 08:40:37 +0000
Subject: inline keyword
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:47:27AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:39:53PM -0500, Wenda Ni wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > For a function that is defined static but without an explicit "inline" keyword,
> > is there a possibility that compiler will optimize it to be a static inline
> > function?
> 
> Yes there is.
>
see -finline-small-functions/-finline-functions-called-once in the gcc manual,
which are enabled by -O2 but can be controlled via -finline-limit and
-fkeep-inline-functions.

thx!
hofrat