A few weeks ago the lto branch of gcc was merged to trunk, and was subsequently released in gcc 4.5. Why was I not notified?? What's wrong with you /prog/, sleeping on the job?
Also doesn't LTO support in almost all mainstream compilers sort of make the 'inline' keyword obsolete? Why would I bother inlining anything ever?
Cool story, finally the last horse finishes the race. I'm hardly impressed.
I can write a library without manually inlining shit and not worry about the performance issues on any major platform
This is what people who buy the whole "intrinsics" thing actually believe, amongst other ludicrous stuff. This whole LTO thing means a slight step down on the scale of suckiness, but automatic code generation (specially GCC's) is still a very bad joke.
BTW GCC always had a bad tendency to ignore the inline keyword anyway, so if you're serious and you know what are you doing (protip: you don't) you have to use either macros or some sort of force_inline crap.
All in all, I'm happy about this thread because 'L' and 'T' have kerning in the font I'm using and the characters overlap quite a bit. I had my doubts it was working (like GCC), but this puts them to rest (unlike GCC).