On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:24 AM Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just want to annotate __always_inline for the case > "2. code that if not inlined is somehow not correct." Oh, I support that entirely - if only for documentation. But I do *not* support the dismissal of the architecture maintainers concerns about "does it work?" and apparently known compiler bugs. > Again, not saying "use a macro". Other people did, though. And there seemed to be little balancing of the pain vs the gain. The gain really isn't that obvious. If the code shrinks by a couple of kB, is that good or bad? Maybe it is smaller, but is it _better_? Linus