Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:08:38 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: make memclass() an inline functino |
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On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 00:33, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> memclass is too large to be a #define; it overflows 80 columns and does >> not make use of facilities available only to macros. >> This patch convert memclass() to be an inline function.
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:09:21AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Exercise care when doing this. Gcc sometimes optimises macros better > than it optimises inline functions
I'll go over the assembly generated for i386, though I'm not entirely convinced this is exercised in the fast path.
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