<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:08 AM Sven Barth via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Those operators can't be inlined, because they're called from helper code, not from the compiler directly. The LLVM backend won't change anything here.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there any real purpose to implementing `Copy` versus just implementing `operator :=` (or `operator Implicit` when in {$mode Delphi})? Those can be inlined, and in practice are used in essentially all the places `Copy` is. By which I mean, IIRC you never really see calls to `fpc_copy_proc` in the generated assembler unless you've specifically implemented `Copy` yourself.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> </div></div>
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