+PrintInlining falsly? says: never executed

Christian Thalinger Christian.Thalinger at Sun.COM
Mon Dec 14 01:09:12 PST 2009


On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 07:08 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Am 07.12.2009 13:52, Christian Thalinger schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:30 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> >   
> >
> >> OK, my question more exactly is, what is a call site?
> >>     
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_site
> >   
> 
> Thanks again, but anyway, I don't understand the difference between:
>     call site not reached
> and
>     never executed.
> 
> In my understanding in both cases, the regarding method is not executed, 
> because the particular call to it was not reached.

"never executed" means the method has never been called from all call
sites, while "call site not reached" means the caller method has never
reached this particular call site.

-- Christian



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