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Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
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> "Tauno Voipio" <tauno DOT voipio AT iki DOT fi DOT SPAMBAIT_REMOVE DOT invalid> wrote in
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> >
> > "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
> [snip]
> > >
> > > ========= C code : BEGIN =========
> > > /* File main.c */
> > >
> > > int foo1 (int argc) { return argc; }
> > > int foo2 (int argc) { return argc; }
> >
> > The optimisation -O3 inlines simple functions (like yours here). There
are
> > no calls to trace.
> [snip]
>
> How can we see that ?
> For instance, nm doesn't distinguish -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3.
>
> ====================
> Windows 2000
> DJGPP 2.03
> GNU gcc/g++ version 3.2.1
> GNU nm 2.13
> ====================
>
> gcc -o a0.exe main.c -g -pg
> nm a0.exe | grep foo
> 000016d0 T _foo1
> 000016e2 T _foo2
>
> gcc -O1 -o a1.exe main.c -g -pg
> nm a1.exe | grep foo
> 000016d0 T _foo1
> 000016e2 T _foo2
>
> gcc -O2 -o a2.exe main.c -g -pg
> nm a2.exe | grep foo
> 000016d0 T _foo1
> 000016f0 T _foo2
>
> gcc -O3 -o a3.exe main.c -g -pg
> nm a3.exe | grep foo
> 000016f0 T _foo1
> 00001710 T _foo2
>
>    =================================
>    Alex Vinokur
>      mailto:alexvn AT connect DOT to
>      http://www.simtel.net/pub/oth/19088.html
>    =================================
>
>
>

Because you did not declare the functions static, they were still included
as discrete functions in the output (so that other modules can access them).
However, the compiler has also inlined copies of those functions in main()
(since the functions were so simple).

Your code:
========= C code : BEGIN =========
/* File main.c */

int foo1 (int argc) { return argc; }
int foo2 (int argc) { return argc; }

int main(int argc)
{
  return (foo1(argc) + foo2(argc));
}

========= C code : END ===========
is optimized by -O3 so that it appears to be:
========= C code : BEGIN =========
/* File main.c */

int foo1 (int argc) { return argc; }
int foo2 (int argc) { return argc; }

int main(int argc)
{
  return ((argc) + (argc));
}

========= C code : END ===========