Make a few small helper functions inline.

Notably toint(), which ought to compile down to the identity function
in any case so you don't really want to put in a pointless call
overhead, and make_ptrlen() (and a couple of its wrappers) which is
standing in for what ought to be a struct-literal syntax.

misc.c

@@ -349,29 +349,6 @@ void burnstr(char *string)             /* sfree(str), only clear it first */
     }
 }
 
-int toint(unsigned u)
-{
-    /*
-     * Convert an unsigned to an int, without running into the
-     * undefined behaviour which happens by the strict C standard if
-     * the value overflows. You'd hope that sensible compilers would
-     * do the sensible thing in response to a cast, but actually I
-     * don't trust modern compilers not to do silly things like
-     * assuming that _obviously_ you wouldn't have caused an overflow
-     * and so they can elide an 'if (i < 0)' test immediately after
-     * the cast.
-     *
-     * Sensible compilers ought of course to optimise this entire
-     * function into 'just return the input value'!
-     */
-    if (u <= (unsigned)INT_MAX)
-        return (int)u;
-    else if (u >= (unsigned)INT_MIN)   /* wrap in cast _to_ unsigned is OK */
-        return INT_MIN + (int)(u - (unsigned)INT_MIN);
-    else
-        return INT_MIN; /* fallback; should never occur on binary machines */
-}
-
 int string_length_for_printf(size_t s)
 {
     /* Truncate absurdly long strings (should one show up) to fit
@@ -1235,24 +1212,6 @@ int nullstrcmp(const char *a, const char *b)
     return strcmp(a, b);
 }
 
-ptrlen make_ptrlen(const void *ptr, size_t len)
-{
-    ptrlen pl;
-    pl.ptr = ptr;
-    pl.len = len;
-    return pl;
-}
-
-ptrlen ptrlen_from_asciz(const char *str)
-{
-    return make_ptrlen(str, strlen(str));
-}
-
-ptrlen ptrlen_from_strbuf(strbuf *sb)
-{
-    return make_ptrlen(sb->u, sb->len);
-}
-
 bool ptrlen_eq_string(ptrlen pl, const char *str)
 {
     size_t len = strlen(str);

misc.h

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>		       /* for FILE * */
 #include <stdarg.h>		       /* for va_list */
 #include <time.h>                      /* for struct tm */
+#include <limits.h>                    /* for INT_MAX/MIN */
 
 unsigned long parse_blocksize(const char *bs);
 char ctrlparse(char *s, char **next);
@@ -57,7 +58,29 @@ void strbuf_finalise_agent_query(strbuf *buf);
 wchar_t *dup_mb_to_wc_c(int codepage, int flags, const char *string, int len);
 wchar_t *dup_mb_to_wc(int codepage, int flags, const char *string);
 
-int toint(unsigned);
+static inline int toint(unsigned u)
+{
+    /*
+     * Convert an unsigned to an int, without running into the
+     * undefined behaviour which happens by the strict C standard if
+     * the value overflows. You'd hope that sensible compilers would
+     * do the sensible thing in response to a cast, but actually I
+     * don't trust modern compilers not to do silly things like
+     * assuming that _obviously_ you wouldn't have caused an overflow
+     * and so they can elide an 'if (i < 0)' test immediately after
+     * the cast.
+     *
+     * Sensible compilers ought of course to optimise this entire
+     * function into 'just return the input value', and since it's
+     * also declared inline, elide it completely in their output.
+     */
+    if (u <= (unsigned)INT_MAX)
+        return (int)u;
+    else if (u >= (unsigned)INT_MIN)   /* wrap in cast _to_ unsigned is OK */
+        return INT_MIN + (int)(u - (unsigned)INT_MIN);
+    else
+        return INT_MIN; /* fallback; should never occur on binary machines */
+}
 
 char *fgetline(FILE *fp);
 char *chomp(char *str);
@@ -96,9 +119,24 @@ struct tm ltime(void);
  */
 int nullstrcmp(const char *a, const char *b);
 
-ptrlen make_ptrlen(const void *ptr, size_t len);
-ptrlen ptrlen_from_asciz(const char *str);
-ptrlen ptrlen_from_strbuf(strbuf *sb);
+static inline ptrlen make_ptrlen(const void *ptr, size_t len)
+{
+    ptrlen pl;
+    pl.ptr = ptr;
+    pl.len = len;
+    return pl;
+}
+
+static inline ptrlen ptrlen_from_asciz(const char *str)
+{
+    return make_ptrlen(str, strlen(str));
+}
+
+static inline ptrlen ptrlen_from_strbuf(strbuf *sb)
+{
+    return make_ptrlen(sb->u, sb->len);
+}
+
 bool ptrlen_eq_string(ptrlen pl, const char *str);
 bool ptrlen_eq_ptrlen(ptrlen pl1, ptrlen pl2);
 bool ptrlen_startswith(ptrlen whole, ptrlen prefix, ptrlen *tail);