How do you stop functions being inlined?

[Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)]

{-# NOINLINE name #-}

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| From: George Russell [mailto:ger@tzi.de]=20
| Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:46 PM
| To: haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: How do you stop functions being inlined?
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| Well, I think we all know the answer to this one, namely=20
|    {-# NOINLINE [name] #-}
| This is, after all, what GHC does, and what several of the=20
| files in ghc/fptools do.
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| Only slight problem is that according to the Haskell 98
| report, including Simon Peyton Jones' revised draft, you
| should use:
|    {-# notInline [name] #-}
| Most of the time in fptools/hslibs (which I have from
| GHC), NOINLINE is used, but in one case notInline is used.
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| Of course one of the delights of pragmas is that the
| "pragma should be ignored if an implementation is not prepared to=20
| handle it.".  So if you guess wrong, you may never know,=20
| until you get a mysterious bug from GHC inlining a call to=20
| create a global variable via unsafePerformIO.  Aren't pragmas=20
| wonderful?
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| Would someone tell me which we are supposed to use?  Or=20
| should I use both "NOINLINE" and "notInline", just to be on=20
| the safe side?
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