On 10-Jul-2001, Hartmut Schirmer <hartmut.schirmer@arcormail.de> wrote:
> We also shouldn´t inline functions in branches that aren´t
> predicted to be excecuted, at least take the __buildin_expect
> into account here.

That reminds me of another heuristic: don't inline functions
marked __attribute__((noreturn)).

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