From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Fri Oct 10 18:20:24 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) id h9AGKOSD048199 for sc22wg5-domo; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:20:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mx1.liv.ac.uk (mx1.liv.ac.uk [138.253.100.179]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h9AGKHEt048194 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:20:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk) Received: from mailhub5.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.157]) by mx1.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A800G-0001ZR-Jz for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:20:32 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mailhub5.liv.ac.uk) by mailhub5.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A800G-0005OG-IL for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:20:32 +0100 Received: from vp135022.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.135.22] helo=jls-rm-home.liv.ac.uk) by mailhub5.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1A800G-0005OD-EQ for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:20:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:20:24 +0100 From: "J.L.Schonfelder" To: WG5 Subject: INLINING Message-ID: <11299027.1065806424@jls-rm-home.liv.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200310091535.h99FZmdE019913@dkuug.dk> References: <200310091535.h99FZmdE019913@dkuug.dk> Originator-Info: login-id=jls; server=pop1.liv.ac.uk X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1A800G-0005OD-EQ*1cv3g0WPt16* X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk An instruction to INLINE appears to me on a par with an instruction to optimise, say, by removing constant loop independent expressions. It is not a language issue. The language may be phrased so that all the information required for the processor to determine that it would be safe to inline but is then a quality of implementation issue whether inlining is performed. -- Lawrie Schonfelder Honorary Senior Fellow University of Liverpool 1 Marine Park, West Kirby, Wirral, UK, CH48 5HN Phone: +44 (151) 625 6986