Re: Patch: Remove gcc dependency in definition of inline functions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kurt Harriman <harriman(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch: Remove gcc dependency in definition of inline functions
Date: 2009-12-16 19:36:47
Message-ID: 1260992207.15029.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On ons, 2009-12-16 at 10:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > So the plain-C89 compilers would be downgraded to "second-class"
> > targets, not worth getting max performance out of them.
>
> Hm? Failing to inline is already a performance hit, which is why
> Kurt got interested in this in the first place.
>
> I think you're way overthinking this. Where we started was just
> a proposal to try to expand the set of inline-ing compilers beyond
> "gcc only". I don't see why we need to do anything but that. The
> code is fine as-is except for the control #ifdefs.

I think the ifdefs should just be HAVE_INLINE && !MSVC, right?

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