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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Do you think there are some reasons to believe pragma Inline is not
> properly applied with inter-package subprograms invocations ?

First, you may need to use -gnatn or -gnatN and at least -O2 (have to
look up the manual for this).

You could also try the GNAT special pragma Inline_Always.

I've found (powerpc-wrs-vxworks) that inlining can in fact slow things
down. Cache effects, I suppose.