Disappearing function

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#1

Why does matches disappear from the output in this godbolt?

Does Rust/LLVM deduplicate functions?

Or does it treat this as some sort of trivial map that will always be inlined (in the case of -O)?

If I stick a #[inline(never)] onto matches it will reappear (and is indeed identical to ifchain).

#2

LLVM does appear to have a MergeFunctions pass.

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#3

It depends on the target: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_target/spec/struct.TargetOptions.html#structfield.merge_functions

But yes, on x64 it does by default.

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#4

If you want to disable this behavior (e.g. on godbolt for showing generated asm), you can use -Cmerge-functions=disabled. (At this point I habitually include it when I set up a godbolt experiment.)

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