Question

Will this code:

inline int funcA(int a) __attribute__((always_inline))
{
    return a + 1;
}
inline int funcB(int b) __attribute__((always_inline))
{
    return funcA(b + 2);
}
int main()
{
    return funcB(3);
}

transformed to code like this?:

int main()
{
   return ((3) + 2) + 1;
}

GCC, ARM (iPhone)

Answer 1

Inlining function calls is not something the language requires compilers to do. It’s a quality of implementation issue (QoI). But any of GCC, MSVC and clang will do it. Of course, you have to enable optimization.

For instance

# clang++ -cc1 -emit-llvm -O2 -o - main.cpp
define i32 @main() nounwind readnone {
entry:
  ret i32 6
}