Problems building with extern inline functions in winebase.h

John Alvord jalvo at mbay.net
Fri Aug 17 13:17:09 CDT 2001


True... But at least in Linux source, inlines are used deliberately and
with every expectation that the compiler will inline those routines. Linux
is very focussed on superb performance and doesn't want any stupid
compiler tricks to mess around with the code.

I have no idea how this applies to the WINE philosphy. I generally use
inlines only for very small functions.

john



On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, J. Cone wrote:

> I would have thought any inlining would enlarge a program 
> compared with single-copy-and-call functions.
> 
> Extern inline would imply that there had to be an un-inlined copy
> somewhere to advertise to the linker, sort of like a weak symbol.
> 
> At 07:56 17/08/01 -0700, John Alvord wrote:
> >On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Mike Bond wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:37:39AM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >> > This patch should fix the build failure, though it doesn't explain why
> >> > gcc doesn't inline such a simple function.
> 
> <snip: static inline causes more bloat than extern inline >
> 
> >Linux itself just went through a transformation of extern inline into
> >static inline. It was triggered by a change in gcc, presumably for the
> >better. There was some on-list grumbling, but the change was necessary.
> >
> >john
> 
> 





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