turning on -fno-inline-functions-called-once

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 03:29:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:

 > A while back, I believe back during the last FUDCon in Raleigh I
 > talked with kylem and davej about turning off the
 > "inline-functions-called-once" which inlines functions that are only
 > called once. Turning off this optimization would allow SystemTap to work
 > much better, especially in the NFS code...
 >
 > Kyle/Dave (or anybody else) remember if anything came out from that conversation?

I forgot all about that conversation.

 > Is there any reason we should not remove this optimization?

I'd be really surprised if it's actually even measurable on modern CPUs.

	Dave

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