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[Christophe de Dinechin]

> > My point is that if you don't assume any function can become  
inline,
> > you prevent such an inliner to do its job on ABI-compliant .o  
files.
> > So you drive the compiler vendor to use an incompatible .o  
format in
> > that case. This optimization is quite significant, so I guess we   
> > want to enable it.
>
> Ok. I find it hard to believe you that it is possible to inline
> functions generated by a different compiler at link time, but I guess 
> I should trust you.

Oh, I find this as hard to believe as you do. That's not my  
objective. What I don't want is some sort of "parallel format" to  
emerge just because a given vendor cannot do something with what we  
define.


Christophe