linux-kernel - Re: optimizing out inline functions

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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:38:36 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Steve French" <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: optimizing out inline functions

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> wrote:
> Ran into one loosely related question, printk takes a variable
> argument list, so the calling function in this case would also need to
> be able to handle thos variable arguments.  With macros, we are able
> to do things like with variable arguments easily
>
> #define function_to_print_some_warning(format, arg...)
> printk(KERN_WARNING ": " format "\n" , ## arg)
>
> Are there style rules (or nicely written examples) for doing this
> (variable argument lists) with (inline) functions
>

Hm, are you referring to making a proxy inline function that takes a
variable number of arguments and calls another function with the same
(also variable number of) variables?

I don't think this is possible unless you want to use va_lists. And
that might not be desirable in an inline function, I don't know how
well gcc can optimize this away.

The canonical example, although not an inline function, is printk()
itself from kernel/printk.c, which simply calls vprintk().


Vegard

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