https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85012
Bug ID: 85012 Summary: GCC does not inline extern "C" functions defined in a different namespace Product: gcc Version: 7.3.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: missed-optimization Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: m101010a at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- $ cat x.cpp namespace foo { extern "C" void f(); } extern "C" void f() {} void f1() { foo::f(); foo::f(); } void f2() { f(); f(); } $ g++ -v -S -O1 x.cpp Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-libmpx --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp Thread model: posix gcc version 7.3.1 20180312 (GCC) COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-save-temps' '-S' '-O1' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/cc1plus -E -quiet -v -D_GNU_SOURCE x.cpp -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -O1 -fpch-preprocess -o x.ii ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/backward /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/include /usr/local/include /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/include-fixed /usr/include End of search list. COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-save-temps' '-S' '-O1' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/cc1plus -fpreprocessed x.ii -quiet -dumpbase x.cpp -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -auxbase x -O1 -version -o x.s GNU C++14 (GCC) version 7.3.1 20180312 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 7.3.1 20180312, GMP version 6.1.2, MPFR version 4.0.1, MPC version 1.1.0, isl version isl-0.18-GMP GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 GNU C++14 (GCC) version 7.3.1 20180312 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 7.3.1 20180312, GMP version 6.1.2, MPFR version 4.0.1, MPC version 1.1.0, isl version isl-0.18-GMP GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 Compiler executable checksum: 7db9d5d3f13a1b145edda774ba2b8b66 COMPILER_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../lib/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/ COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-save-temps' '-S' '-O1' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' The generated assembly for f2 contains only a return. The generated assembly for f1 contains 2 calls to f. Since ::f and foo::f refer to the same function^[1], the same optimizations should be applied to calls using either name. [1] n4659 section 10.5 [dcl.link] paragraph 6: Two declarations for a function with C language linkage with the same function name (ignoring the namespace names that qualify it) that appear in different namespace scopes refer to the same function.