Re: [2.6 patch] cris: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:08:30AM +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote:

> At the time this is rejected because GCC 3.2 makes other inlining
> descisions when "extern inline" is used instead of "static inline".
> Actually we modified lots of static inline to extern inline in
> 2.4 in November 2002 to reduce code bloat with GCC 3.2. I don't
> know if this still is true with 4.0. 
>...

If you look at include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h, you see that in the 
kernel, we #define "inline" to "inline __attribute__((always_inline))"
for gcc >= 3.1 .

In November 2002, we didn't do this in 2.4 kernels.

Can you test whether my patch makes any difference in the size of a 2.6 
kernel with gcc 3.2?

> /Mikael
>...

cu
Adrian

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