Brian Ravnsgaard Riis wrote:
So, there was a good argument after all! :-D I was hoping you would come back with something more descriptive than "They don't." I think it was the terseness of it I frowned upon.
No problem :)
Of course, after profiling, applying a hint to the compiler about inlining may indeed be in order. I still think it is a rare thing that you should second-guess your compiler, but I'll admit that it can have its uses. Actually, I think I would prefer inlining a specific function *call* if that were possible, not the function, but...
I've had to jump through hoops to achieve just that before. Basically I wrote a function I force to inline and then making a trivial function which I don't inline which forwards to the first function. Then I use the first function directly when I want the call inline and the second function when I don't want the code bloat. It is an ugly solution but it functioned.
Heading seriously off-topic here... Thanks for your replies, Dave, Jonathan and Michael. I got the "discussion" I was hoping for. :-)
HTH -- Michael Marcin