[LLVMdev] Enabling inlining

[Jim Grosbach]

On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:54 AM, David Given wrote:

> My language is producing a lot of very short functions, typically two or
> three instructions long. These should be ideal candidates for inlining,
> but it isn't happening.
> 
> My compiler is producing one big bitcode file, and all the functions are
> marked as 'internal'. I'm then doing the optimisation and translation
> manually using llc -O3 into a .s file, and then linking this against the
> runtime using gcc.
> 

Are you running 'opt' on your bitcode or otherwise manually running those passes?

> I see that llvm-ld supports an inlining pass; is this the *only* place
> it happens? i.e. do I need to run llvm-ld on my bitcode file before
> translation? If not, is there anything specifically I need to do in the
> compiler to make inlining happen?
> 
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