[oe] [PATCH 2/3] uClibc: use __always_inline instead of __inline__

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Phil Blundell<philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 05:01 +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>> On Monday 20 July 2009 00:33:57 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> > From: Mario Domenech Goulart <mario at ossystems.com.br>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>>
>> Why? what does it fix?
>
> There are some functions in the dynamic linker bootstrap code that must
> (for a variety of reasons) be inlined to operate correctly.  Under some
> circumstances, particularly on MIPS for some reason, gcc decided to
> disregard the normal "inline" qualifier and put these functions out of
> line which led to disaster.

Which particular gcc version is in question here ?

Looking at the code I think if it is gcc 3.2 then it would use the
'must align' semantics
but I would be surprised for other gcc versions because for other versoins
__always_inline is simply defined as __inline which is equivalent to __inline__

Thx

-Khem