No. The inline keyword simply tells the compiler that the function is a candidate for inline expansion. If the compiler's optimisers approve inline expansion, the function body is inline expanded at each call site, thus completely eliminating the overhead of the function calls at the expense of increased code size. If the increased code size would be detrimental to performance, the inline expansion is ignored completely. Note that functions that are defined within their own declarations are implicitly marked for inline expansion, thus the inline keyword should only be used where interfaces are declared separately (usually in header files) from their implementations (usually in source files). Also note that inline expansion is only suitable for small functions with one or two simple statements at most, or larger functions that are seldom called. Recursive functions can also be inline expanded, however the compiler will limit the depth of the calls. Any subsequent recursions will be treated as being standard function calls. However, most compilers also make use of tail recursion optimisers to minimise call depths.
No. The "inline" specifier is a hint to the compiler that the function so marked should be replaced, at each invocation, with its body. The compiler does not have to do so, and will refuse in certain cases. If it does honor the specifier, then you save the overhead of function call setup, entry, return, and cleanup, at the possible cost of larger object code size.However, an inlined function body is subject to possible optimization, in the larger context of where it was placed, so inlining functions "can" optimize them, but that is not primarily what inlining means. Non-inlined functions are only optimized within the context of the function body.
Websites serve many functions. One reason companies have websites is to inform consumers about the products and services they offer.
To inform
Persuade Inform Entertain Educate
the main function of PHIVOLCS is to inform about the current happenings about a volcano which is near to explode....
Inform people about the weather that we experience in our daily lives.
The three main functions of promotion are to inform customers about a product or service, persuade them to make a purchase, and remind them about the benefits of the product or service.
A modern newspaper has four main functions: to inform, serve, entertain and interpret. inform - to report news with accuracy and interest serve - to provide information such as weather, markets and shipping. entertain - humorous items such as comics, cartoons, columnists and bizarre stories. interpret - background information and a summary to help readers understand events and their implications.
The 8 functions of a journalist are to inform, educate, investigate, interpret, analyze, provide a public forum, monitor power, and give voice to the voiceless.
TO inform people so that they can participate in the democratic process
There is no problem with keeping data and methods separate. Encapsulating data with the methods that operate upon the data doesn't actually resolve anything, it merely helps us to express the relationship between the data and the methods in code. But we still require methods that are completely separate from the data. For example, a function that operates upon two different data types cannot be a member of both data types, it has to be separate from at least one of them. The problem to which you allude is not the fact that data and methods are separate but the fact that the data itself is publicly accessible and can be modified by any function regardless of whether the function is a member of the type or not. The compiler cannot help us because user-defined types are user-defined; it has no knowledge of which operations are valid and which are not. Encapsulation not only introduces the concept of member functions it also introduces the concepts of private, protected and public access, as well as the concept of friend functions. These concepts do not exist at the machine level, they only exist at the programming level and are simply an extension to the procedural programming paradigm. Behind the scenes, the data is still public and the functions are still separate; calling a member function is merely syntactic sugar-coating for an ordinary procedure call. Encapsulation essentially allows us to inform the compiler as to which functions may gain access to which data. This helps to eliminate many potential errors at compile time, but also reduces the amount of code we need to write by eliminating runtime checks that would otherwise impact upon performance. In short, the more the compiler knows about our user-defined types, the more it can help us to eliminate errors in our code, and encapsulation is just one of the tools we use to provide that information to the compiler.
To inform land developers about where they should and shouldn't build.