[LLVMdev] Selectively Disable Inlining for Functions

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, John Criswell wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a standard way of specifying a list of functions 
> that *should not* be inlined by the -inline pass.

Nope, but you could hack something into gccas/gccld if you want.  Of 
course, you can disable inlining completely with the -disable-inlining 
flag.

> I'm currently working with an experimental analysis pass that checks for 
> calls to memory allocation functions; inlining and dead code elimination 
> might make the pass more stable, but we don't want to inline the calls to the 
> memory allocation functions until after our analysis pass is finished.

The simplest way is to change the heuristic to consider those functions 
as expensive to inline.

-Chris

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