[PATCH] Always inline system calls

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:44:09 +0100
> Carmelo AMOROSO <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just an idea... why not redefining 'inline' into
>> ldso/ldso/avr32/dl-syscalls.h that is included
>> at the top of ldso/include/dl-syscall.h.
>> This will not affect any other architectures, letting
>> the compiler to do the best choice ?
> 
> Are you sure no other architectures need this? gcc tends to get
> extremely reluctant about inlining when compiling with -Os, and I have
> a hard time believing that avr32 is the only architecture that can't
> call functions before the GOT has been initialized.
> 
> Actually, we probably can call functions before the GOT has been set up
> if ldso is compiled with enough optimization, but I think it's more
> robust to just make sure that the functions that are called early are
> always inlined.
>

This thread died, I can always make a patch for doing the inline stuff 
only AVR32 specific. At least if others are seeing similar problems. For 
example Buildroot will compile uClibc with -Os.

I will submit a patch soon (tm).

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With kind regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Applications Enginer