Re: automatic inlining?

dash@hpbs3308.boi.hp.com (Dan Ash) writes:
>[are there compilers that in-line a routine if it's only called from one
>place?]


You might want to take a look at the FIAT system by Mary Hall et. al.
It not only handles automatic inlining, but also cloning (i.e., don't
inline, but make a copy that will be called from a known, fixed set of
places, thus allowing for better interprocedural analysis and
optimizations).


I've included a reference below (there may be better references ---
this is just one that I happen to have on hand).


Good luck,
Steve


@INPROCEEDINGS{fiat.lcpc93,
      author = "Mary W. Hall and John M. Mellor-Brummey
and Alan Carle and Ren\'{e} G. Rodr\'{i}guez",
      title = "FIAT: A Framework for Interprocedural Analysis and Transforma
tions",
      pages = "522--545",
      key = "",
      crossref = "lcpc.93",
}
@PROCEEDINGS{lcpc.93,
      key = "LCPC93",
      editor = "Utpal Banerjee and David Gelernter and Alex Nicolau and
David Padua",
      title = "Proc. Sixth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel
Computing",
      booktitle = "Proc. Sixth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for
Parallel Computing",
      series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
      volume = "768",
      month = aug,
      year = 1993,
      address = "Portland, OR",
      publisher = "Springer Verlag",
}




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