> Also some higher level functions may want to have the mode passed to them > as parameters. See f.e. include/linux/buffer_head.h. Without the > parameters you will have to maintain farms of definitions for all cases. But if any part of the call chain from those higher level functions down to these low level functions is not inline, then the compiler won't be able to collapse out the "switch (mode)" ... so we'd end up with a ton of extra object code. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 31 11:58:20 2006
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