Inlining of Functions

With an inline function, the compiler inserts the function instructions directly at the locations where it is called instead of making actual function calls. Thus, similar to a C/C++ macro, the instructions of an inline function are replicated at each call location. The compiler performs explicit or automatic inlining at high optimization levels (4 and 5). Inlining saves the cost of a function call and provides more instructions for which register usage and instruction scheduling can be optimized, at the cost of a larger code footprint in memory. The following is an example of inlining compiler commentary.

                Function initgraph inlined from source file ptralias.c 
                    into the code for the following line
0.       0.         44.       initgraph(rows);

The compiler commentary does not wrap onto two lines in the Source tab of the Analyzer.