Re: Compile time executed functions

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <wcc1yrje0nr.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff says...
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>Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se> writes:
>
>> Sometimes, especially when doing embedded programming, I feel a great
>> need to execute a function to get literal initialization a constant.
>> That is I'd like to have the compiler to execute a function for me (at
>> compiletime!) and use the return of that function to initialize the
>> constant.
>
>If you inline the function, you are likely to get what you want,
>depending on how good the compiler's support for inlining is.

He also wanted the result of the function to be put into the ROM area when the
executable is created by the compiler. Inlining wouldn't do that, would it? It
just prevents the little extra subprogram call overhead (saving and restoring
the register context, etc) when the function is called at runtime.

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