Yeah, it can certainly be inlined or optimized away with various compiler options. However, as you might surmise, debugging without stack frames becomes rather

Yeah, it can certainly be inlined or optimized away with various compiler options. However, as you might surmise, debugging without stack frames becomes rather difficult as functions corresponding to source code disappear into a goo of assembly. The example with slightly different options (as mentioned in another comment) gives what you're looking for: https://godbolt.org/g/GlkEQK https://godbolt.org/g/GlkEQK