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title="NEW --- - should be able to apply attribute always_inline to ObjC blocks"
href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24513">24513</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>should be able to apply attribute always_inline to ObjC blocks
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<th>Product</th>
<td>clang
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<td>trunk
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Frontend
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>comexk@gmail.com
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<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<td>Unclassified
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<pre>Since an ObjC block is essentially a wrapper around a couple of functions, and
those functions can be inlined, I would like to apply the always_inline
attribute to a block expression to do the equivalent of marking (all) those
functions as such. Currently, Clang does not support this:
warning: 'always_inline' attribute only applies to functions
[-Wignored-attributes]
int (^x)() = ^() __attribute__((always_inline)) { return 5; } ;
Admittedly, since blocks are always called through the equivalent of function
pointers, it would be impossible to actually enforce inlining, even at -O0, the
way the attribute normally does. However, when optimization is on and Clang
knows the target of a function pointer call, it does currently seem to honor
the attribute:
// Without the attribute, clang -O3 on my system generates main with 5x
// "callq _block_invoke", and _block_invoke with 15x "callq _foo". With it
// I get 75 calls to foo.
int foo(int);
//__attribute__((always_inline))
int block_invoke(struct block *b) {
return foo(1) + foo(2) + foo(3) + foo(4) + foo(5) +
foo(1) + foo(2) + foo(3) + foo(4) + foo(5) +
foo(1) + foo(2) + foo(3) + foo(4) + foo(5);
}
struct block { int (*invoke)(struct block *); int state; };
int main() {
struct block block = { block_invoke, 42 };
return block.invoke(&block) +
block.invoke(&block) +
block.invoke(&block) +
block.invoke(&block) +
block.invoke(&block);
}
It would make sense to allow this to be taken advantage of with real blocks.</pre>
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