On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Well, it's not totally meaningless. To begin with, defining 'inline' to > mean 'always inline' is a Linux kernel definition. So we already changed > the behavior - in the hope of getting it right most of the time and in the > hope of thus improving the kernel. Umm. No we didn't. We've never changed it. It was "always inline" back in the old days, and then we had to keep it "always inline", which is why we override the default gcc meaning with the preprocessor. Now, OPTIMIZE_INLINING _tries_ to change the semantics, and people are complaining.. Linus -- 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
