[fpc-devel] Inline methods

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> On 16 Jan 2013, at 12:16, Ludo Brands wrote:
>>
>>>      When the method is called from outside the class then it is  
>>> inlined (x64 linux):
>>> [snip]
>>>      But when the method is called from inside the class then a  
>>> call is used:
>>> [snip]
>>>      Using Self.IsFull results in the same code.
>>>
>>>      FPC 2.6.0 and 2.7.1 from today.
>>>
>>>      A bug?
>> Are those calls before or after the method body appears in the  
>> source code? The compiler cannot inline anything for which it  
>> hasn't parsed the source code yet.
>
> Does that differ ? If so, then I should mention this in the  
> documentation !

Someone else also thought so in the past: http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2009-November/023321.html 
  :)


Jonas
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