DIP56 Provide pragma to control function inlining

[Walter Bright]

On 2/23/2014 4:21 AM, Mike wrote:
> Is this a front-end thing or something specific to DMD?  I'm wondering because
> I'd like something like this for GDC and LCD when targeting ARM
> microcontrollers.  The inline keyword makes quite a significant performance
> improvement in one of my current C++ projects, and I anticipate the same result
> when I convert it to D.

It's a hint to the compiler - the compiler is allowed to ignore it if it doesn't 
support it.


> Any chance of adding a "optimize, true/false" pragma also to get around the lack
> of a volatile keyword? (Just a question, I don't mean to hijack this thread and
> turn into another volatile keyword debate).

Please start another thread with your proposal.