On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:32:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Modern versions of gcc may do the right thing. Note the two very important > code-words: "modern" and "may". It's even worse than that, that may not even get it right. That's why we need always_inline to force it when we know we need it. Now for the cases where we don't know know that we either need or really really strongly want it we should just not mark it inline at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html