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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:06:58 +0200
From: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs.helsinki.fi>
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J. Mayer kirjoitti:
> Some may have experienced of having some Qemu builds crashing,
> apparently at random places, but in a reproducable way.
> I found one reason for this crashes: it appears that with the growth of
> the op.c file, there may be cases where we could reach the inlining
> limits of gcc. In such a case, gcc would not inline some declared
> "inline" function but would emit a call and provide a separate function.
> Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in op.o context as it will
> slowdown the emulation and because the call is likely to break the
> specific compilation rules (ie reserved registers) used while compiling
> op.o

Does -winline give a warning when this happens?

-- Heikki Lindholm