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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
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Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:
: No. And you? Do you really think that the linux kernel community would
: like the idea of using a *function* to get/set a plain simple integer
: variable? I already hear them scream: "It would be too inefficient.
: Especially in a *kernel*!" ;-)

Though all you have to explain is pragma Inline and -gnatn or
-gnatN and show them the disassembly...


:>Think of "herding cats".
: 
: I did. :)

If you tell them that pragma Inline is standard and supported
in GCC, that should be impressive?


-- Georg