On Пн, 2022-05-09 at 19:08 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Please use __always_inline instead, which adds the inline keyword as > well as __attribute__ ((inline)).  That way gcc ensures that the > function is *always* inlined. That is not necessary. My original intention was to improve the debugging experience at this point. And the standard `inline` keyword allows one to control optimizations with the -O flag.