On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 11:59 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Bahadir Balban <bbalban@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I see multiple instances of the same symbol in the final executable. I > > am suprised because I would expect them to not appear at all, if > > compiler chose to inline them. If it did not choose to inline, I would > > expect it to appear only once. This is because even though each instance > > would be available in every .o file including the header, during the > > final link they should have been reduced to one instance. > > That last step does not occur by default. It requires directing the > linker to find and eliminate those duplicates. When using the gold > linker, you can make it occur in some cases by compiling with > -ffunction-sections and linking with --icf-safe. > > Ian Hmm I didn't know this. So my best bet seems placing this function in a source file with no inline. -- Bahadir Balban
