Patch to allow targets to prevent inlining
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Feb 15 09:42:00 GMT 2000
In message < 20000215092338Y.mitchell@codesourcery.com >you write:
> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Nick> OK, you win. But since adding a naked attribute the to
> Nick> generic part of gcc would increase the overall complexity of
> Nick> the compiler, I doubt it I would be able to persuade the
> Nick> steering committee to accept it unless several more ports
> Nick> wanted the feature. Hmm, mnaybe we could start a campaign
> Nick> :-)
>
> I'm not on the steering committee. But, I think this would be a
> useful feature in general -- if I understand `naked' correctly to mean
> a function without a prologue or epilogue. For example, thunks in C++
> could then be represented as ordinary functions, not with assembly
> code.
There was a discussion of naked functions a while back and rth made a
strong case that we should not support them. Check the archives.
jeff
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