Various patches against gmp-4.3.0

[Marc Glisse]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

>  For C, I just checked a bit what happens with a recent version of Sun
>  Studio. I compiled several files that include the same header with a
>  static inline function and all use it. I then used nm to look at the
>  result. With optimization, the function disappears. Without
>  optimization, I end up with 2 copies of the function (not exported).
>
> 2 copies in same object file?!?

Only one in each .o file. But when I link several .o files together (in a 
.so for instance), with static they remain distinct, and with extern they 
get merged. It is not very surprising that static functions don't get 
merged, gcc+binutiles don't merge them either. I think I heard that MSVC 
does though, as long as the compiler generated the exact same code for 
both (nice optimization).

I am actually more surprised by extern inline, where depending on the 
options gcc either generates no function or generates functions that cause 
a multiple definition error at link time (where with sunpro the multiple 
definitions get merged).

Plain "inline" seems to be the sunpro (and C99) equivalent of the gcc 
"extern inline attribute((gnu_inline))".

> I'll use the following:
>
> /* Recent enough Sun C compilers accept "extern inline" */
> #if defined (__SUNPRO_C) && __SUNPRO_C >= 0x560
> #define __GMP_EXTERN_INLINE  extern inline
> #endif
>
> /* Somewhat older Sun C compilers accept "static inline" */
> #if defined (__SUNPRO_C) && __SUNPRO_C >= 0x540
> #define __GMP_EXTERN_INLINE  static inline
> #endif

I guess you mean in the reverse order, or with a 
!defined(__GMP_EXTERN_INLINE) :-)

-- 
Marc Glisse