http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53792
--- Comment #4 from vincenzo Innocente <vincenzo.innocente at cern dot ch> 2012-07-27 10:47:49 UTC --- is "__attribute__((always_inline)) " not making foo to transform in foo2 in a very early compiler's stage? I can make getV a macro if helps: I do not like SetV due to its "not natural" syntax