Re: Some functions are not inlined by gcc 3.2, resulting code is

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 01:21, Robert Love wrote:
> I agree 100% we mark too much as inline - but at the same time, some
> larger functions are inline simply because they were originally part of
> another function and pulled out for cleanliness.  They are only used
> once...  in other words, in some cases I hope the kernel developers know
> what they are doing when they mark stuff inline.

gcc actually appears to know about that case for static functions.