------- Comment #8 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-11-21 16:06 ------- (In reply to comment #7) I'm pretty sure that if you run a poll of all the C++ > programmers, they'll tell you that they expect the former to always be inlined > in an optimized build, while the latter ought to depend on some specific > command-line parameters.
Depends on which C++ developers and if they have really thought about all their uses of inline (most have not even though they say they want functions declared as inline to be inlined)? Also there are examples of where respecting inline will just cause the compiler to use so much memory/compile time is not funny. An example is PR 8361. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24947
