Re: [coreboot] [patch][v2] remove inline functions in fam10 source

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Thanks for the comments. I think you are right about  _asm_ inline 
> instructions should be smaller than a function call. It turns out that 
> none of these changes resulted in a ROM size decrease with my tools. 
> My guess is the GCC inlined them anyway.

You can try  -finline-limit=5  or similar, or for finer control
--param max-inline-insns-auto=3  etc.

The standard GCC tuning seems not to always be very good for C code
at -Os, please file a bug report if you have some hard numbers on a
non-trivial piece of code (like this :-) ).

Segher