Feature request: smarter warning about inlining of vararg functions

Feature request: smarter warning about inlining of vararg functions

[C. van Reeuwijk]

The following program:
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// File: va.cc

class X {
    int v;

public:
    X() { v = 0; }
    virtual void foo( int x, ... ){ v = x; }
};

int main()
{
    X x;

    x.foo( 3 );
}
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Causes the following warning:

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> g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.91.54/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.54 19980816 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)
> g++ -O -Winline -c va.cc -o va.o
va.cc: In method `void X::foo(int ...)':
va.cc:8: warning: varargs function cannot be inline
va.cc: In function `int main()':
va.cc:8: warning: can't inline call to `void X::foo(int ...)'
va.cc:15: warning: called from here
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If either '-O' or '-Winline' is omitted, or if '-O' is replaced with
'-finline-functions', there are no warnings.

Strictly speaking, this is correct behavior, since -O makes functions
defined within a class inline by default, and apparently the compiler
cannot inline foo().  Nevertheless, it would be nice if the combination
of flags '-O -Winline' could be used without complaints about these
functions.

-- 
Kees van Reeuwijk, Delft University of Technology
http://pds.twi.tudelft.nl/~reeuwijk