On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Luck, Tony wrote: > > 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. Correct. But such bitops are typically defined to be inline. - 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 11:59:57 2006
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