[fpc-devel] Does FPC optimize unused parameters ?

[Martin]

On 24/08/2012 12:48, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> Martin wrote on Fri, 24 Aug 2012:
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>> On 24/08/2012 12:04, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>>> Martin wrote on Fri, 24 Aug 2012:
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>> The above takes the first of the overloaded.
>> All bodies are empty.
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>> procedure DebugLn(const s: string = ''); inline; overload;
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> That looks like a very serious bug introduced in the handling of 
> parameters to inlined routines. Florian changed several things there 
> over the last couple of months, maybe he has an idea.

If he looks at it, maybe a compiler-switch. It could be treated like in 
bool eval, that might omit calls. But obviously not as default.

Anyway, if the behaviour is kept for none function-call params, then it 
is a nice addition. (Allows me to to my debugln with empty body)