Re: inline function expansion

[Emanuel Berg]

Lynn Winebarger wrote:

>> Isn't the idea of inlining that the behaviour/effect of
>> invoking a function shouldn't change, just that the
>> resulting code might be more efficient?
>
> The main thing I am interested in is the ability to do
> compile-time evaluation on constant expressions.

What exactly are "constant expressions" in the context of
this discussion?

The same as this?

  https://www.stroustrup.com/sac10-constexpr.pdf

> I'm trying to design/implement a way of defining generic
> methods so that the specialization may be determined (or
> explicitly constructed) at compile time and compiled to
> a non-generic function call, and left to dynamic
> dispatch otherwise.

Okay, so what would be the gain(s) of having such
a capability?

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