On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 11:25:23AM -0400, Danielle Church via Gcc-help wrote: > In any case; does this mean that the only way to put a function > definition into a file without GCC emitting standalone code for it is > to use the C99 inline keyword, which alters the behavior of the > optimizer? Does it? What makes you think it does? There are some differences to heuristics, but are you actually seeing any, or is this a hypothetical thing? (And heuristics will change all the time between GCC releases). > Is there no way to get the code-emit behavior (inline the > function or emit a TU-external reference, don't emit standalone > definition) without the optimizer changes (more likely to inline the > function, even if it's a bad idea)? extern attribute((gnu_inline)) Segher
