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From: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
To: Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>
Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>,
	Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC-4.0.2 20050811: should GCC consider inlining functions in between different sections?
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> On Aug 12, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Etienne Lorrain wrote:
> >  I have added a command to the linker file to forbid reference from
> > one section to another:
> >NOCROSSREFS (.text .xcode);
> 
> It sounds like this feature isn't compatible with inlining, -fno- 
> inline I suspect is one of the few ways to `fix' it in general, that,  
-fno-inline still won't suppress inlining of functions called once...

Honza
> or require that all functions be marked noinline that would otherwise  
> be wrong to inline.
> 
> >  The question is in fact: what is a section for GCC?
> 
> Anything a user wants.  We don't limit the uses, so this question  
> cannot, in general be answered, at best a few users could tell you  
> how a few of them are using sections.  For example, I would not  
> expect most people to know about NOCROSSREFS.