[cxx-abi-dev] Inlining requirements for ABI functionality

[Dennis Handly]

>From: Matthew Markland <marklandm at acm.org>
>a discussion has broken out regarding whether
>various thunks need to be inlined for the compiler to be ABI compliant.

I've assumed this is a quality of implementation issue, not for the ABI.
Of course if they are not inlined, the ABI has something to say about the
duplicate symbols and linking.

>My take on this is that it is up to the compiler whether
>to inline the thunks if they are implemented as complete functions;
Matt

Right.
Our ia64 compiler has thunks that just branch to the normal functions.
Inlining would most likely be counter productive for code bloat, unless
virtual functions were real small.