On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Actually, the nice part about "inline_hint" would be that then we could > have some nice config option like > > #ifdef CONFIG_FULL_CALL_TRACE > #define inline_hint noinline > #elif defined(CONFIG_TRUST_COMPILER) > #define inline_hint /* */ > #else > #define inline_hint __inline > #endif > > and now the _only_ thing we need to do is to remove the > > #define __inline __force_inline > > thing, and just agree that "__inline" is the "native compiler meaning". > > We have a few users of "__inline", but not very many. We can leave them > alone, or just convert them to __inline__ or inline. > Oh yeah, and figure out what actually breaks on alpha such that they added the following (arch/alpha/include/asm/compiler.h) #ifdef __KERNEL__ /* Some idiots over in <linux/compiler.h> thought inline should imply always_inline. This breaks stuff. We'll include this file whenever we run into such problems. */ #include <linux/compiler.h> #undef inline #undef __inline__ #undef __inline #undef __always_inline #define __always_inline inline __attribute__((always_inline)) #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ Cheers, Harvey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
