http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55797
--- Comment #3 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-01-08 13:50:58 UTC --- Eh, we do totally crazy (recursive) inlining here ... struct section_info { intrusive_ptr < section_info > parent; }; struct file_info { intrusive_ptr < file_info > parent; intrusive_ptr < section_info > switched_section; }; so the simple void start_file (void) { intrusive_ptr < file_info > parent; } creates and destroys the graph of file_info / section_info nodes with the edges represented by intrusive_ptr's. void start_file() () { ... <bb 2>: _5 = parent.px; if (_5 != 0B) goto <bb 3>; else goto <bb 1041> (<L3>); <bb 3>: _6 = &_5->switched_section; _7 = _6->px; if (_7 != 0B) goto <bb 4>; else goto <bb 6> (<L1>); <bb 4>: section_info::~section_info (_7); <bb 5>: operator delete (_7); ... and 1000 calls follow. I wonder why we need such high early-inlin-insns number and for lower we hit: else if ((n = num_calls (callee)) != 0 && growth * (n + 1) > PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_EARLY_INLINING_INSNS)) { if (dump_file) fprintf (dump_file, " will not early inline: %s/%i->%s/%i, " "growth %i exceeds --param early-inlining-insns " "divided by number of calls\n", xstrdup (cgraph_node_name (e->caller)), e->caller->uid, xstrdup (cgraph_node_name (callee)), callee->uid, growth); want_inline = false; } of which I cannot make very much sense. Why should the number of calls in callee(!) times the growth matter? Shouldn't this be the number of times the caller calls callee? And why even that? We've gone completely away from the "consider only if all calls can be inlined" way of early inline operation!