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Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> It's needed, and no it's not a compiler bug.

In fact, it is.  gcc isn't properly inlining functions where uses occur 
before implementation of the inlined function.

Or you could just call it "gcc is dumb" rather than a compiler bug.

	Jeff