Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Nick Piggin
2006-01-03T05:31:40Z

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> > We only disagree on how to achieve an improvement.
> >
>
> The best approach is to manually review and fix up all the inline statements.
>

I agree with this. Turning off inlining in one big hit can punish
correct users of inline and may cause regressions.

Reducing inline abuse seems to be the easist possible case for
incremental patches, which is how we've always tried to do things.
Andrew (and others) have been reducing inlines for years and things
are going along in the right direction.

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