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From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (Bill Sommerfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Inline style question
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Date: 7 Apr 90 20:51:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: bright@Data-IO.COM's message of 4 Apr 90 20:22:10 GMT


   Certainly a recursive function is inlineable. The simple case:

	inline int func(i)
	{
		return i ? 0 : func(i + 1);
	}

A modified version of this:

inline int func(int i)
{
    if (i)
	return 0;
    else return func(i+1);
}

will be inlined as a loop by GCC (since it's tail recursive).

					- Bill
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