I want to make an external swap function but I want to make it inline and for some reason I dont want to use a macro. Can I depend on gcc to inline a 3 line function when using the inline keyword?
I want to make an external swap function but I want to make it inline and for some reason I dont want to use a macro. Can I depend on gcc to inline a 3 line function when using the inline keyword?
It doesn't really matter if GCC doesn't make it inline, does it? GCC will inline your function if it thinks it's the best idea. In fact, it will probably do so anyway, even if you don't use the inline keyword. And it doesn't matter to you. The code still does the same thing whether the function is inlined or not. It might be more efficient to inline it, but that's for GCC to decide.
I would guess, however, that a three-line function which is called several times has a very good chance of being inlined. Especially if you use -O2 or -O3 to tell GCC to optimise for speed (as opposed to -Os, for space optimising).
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However, in a "external function", that sounds like a different source file, in which case the inline keyword will not help. Moving the function to a header-file that is included where the function is called would be one choice.
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There is also a small difference inlining in C89 and C99 mode
thanks, that's what I wanted to knowOriginally Posted by matsp
