a reasonable approach to inlining

[ZIEL FRED ADAM]

One of the things I think Microsoft did right with C 5.0 was add "intrinsic"
functions.  These are standard library functions such as movmem, strcmp, strcpy,
inp, outp, etc. that are inlined.  The instrinisic code generation
can be turned on and off individually for each function using a #pragma.
This came in handy when their intrinsic inp and outp didn't work on version
5.0 of the compiler since I could keep the inlining for the functions I
wanted, but turn it off for those two.  They also have #pragma's to control
the optimizations which is handy since it allows you to disable loop optimation
around a certain loop if that is necessary (ie. optimized null delay loops
don't serve their purpose if they are optimized away [yes, I know there are
better ways than delay loops... it's an example]).  Are these uses of 
#pragma common ones?  I though they were pretty handy. 

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Fred Ziel, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Reserach, CU-Boulder 
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