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Re:Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler by pcwalton on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:43PM (#13806763)
> What is the standard term for this kind of inlining which would distinguish it from the inlining already present in the compiler?

There isn't a standard term, because virtually all inliners always did what Go is now doing. It's pretty basic functionality.

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Re:Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler by dilap on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:49PM (#13807168)
Really? I feel like every C++ compiler I've used has given very unreliable stacktraces with optimizations enabled.
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Re:Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler by jstarks on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:49PM (#13807167)
Do most compilers preserve enough metadata to report accurate stacks?
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Re:Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler by weberc2 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:50PM (#13812724)
So they're not avoiding a standard term to be misleading; there simply isn't a standard term to use. Thank you for clarifying.
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