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In gnu.gcc.help Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:
>> The optimisation -O3 inlines simple functions (like yours here). There are
>> no calls to trace.
> [snip]
> 
> How can we see that ?

By looking at the produced assembler...

> For instance, nm doesn't distinguish -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3.

The function definitions have to be there in case you want to access them
from another translation unit.

Try to make the functions "static". As the the functions are no longer
accessible from the outside I'd expect the symbols to be removed
completely.  But that's just a wild guess.

Andre'

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