Disabling All Inlining in DMD Debug Builds

ryuukk_ ryuukk.dev at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 20:43:45 UTC 2022


On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 19:28:34 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> I use
>
> ```
> pragma(inline, true)
> function definition
> ```
>
> all over my code. And by default, DMD inlines these functions 
> even in debug builds, which normally is great. I have a custom 
> dynamic array container and if the indexing operator overload 
> function wasn't inlined the debug build would have a ~10x 
> slowdown and become un-testable in many ways.
>
> What sucks about this is that stepping through the code in a 
> debugger is way worse because the the "step-over" operation no 
> longer works properly. Maybe this is a bug in the PDB output, 
> but trying to step over an inlined function call still takes 
> you into the inlined function body as if it were a step-in.
>
> So is there a way to tell DMD to ignore these pragmas in 
> certain builds?

This is ugly, but that works

```D
version(DebugFast) pragma(inline, true);
void my_function()
{
}
```

But that'll only inline if you build with DEBUG_FAST, wich is not 
what you want

I wish we could do ``version(DebugFast | Release)``




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