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Re: turning on -fno-inline-functions-called-once


On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:02:08AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >> A while back, I believe back during the last FUDCon in Raleigh I talked with kylem and davej about turning off the "inline-functions-called-once" which inlines functions that are only called once. Turning off this optimization would allow SystemTap to work much better, especially in the NFS code...
> >>
> >> Kyle/Dave (or anybody else) remember if anything came out from that conversation?
> >>
> >> Is there any reason we should not remove this optimization?
> >>
> > 
> > I don't mind the idea of turning this off in debug builds, but I'm iffy
> > about turning the optimization off in release builds...
> Understandable... but its a catch-22... If its not turned off in release builds then we can't use systemtap [to debug NFS] in production environments which the true value systemtap brings to the table...  imho...
> 

Is this liable to actually occur, though?

I mean, I don't have any problem with it per se... I'd just be suprised,
is all.

regards, Kyle


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