Thanks all for the information. I will have a read to understand the backgrounds better.
Darius On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Vincent Snijders wrote: > 2011/8/18 <dhkblas...@zeelandnet.nl>: >> >> I'm porting a piece of code from C++ and there they use virtual inline >> methods. I tried it in FPC but it accepts either virtual OR inline methods. >> Is this a bug, or a feature that I don't understand enough about? > > At first I didn't understand how a virtual function can be inlined (in > C++), but after reading > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301407.aspx I understand. > > I think fpc is not optimizing so much that it can detect when a > virtual function can be inlined. But maybe WPO > (http://wiki.freepascal.org/Whole_Program_Optimization) can do > something similar. > > Vincent > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
