[PATCH 2/7] PowerPC: add unlikely() to BUG_ON()
Andreas Schwab
schwab at redhat.com
Fri Jan 28 21:14:16 EST 2011
"David Laight" <David.Laight at ACULAB.COM> writes:
> Also, as (I think) in some of the generated code quoted,
> use of __builtin_expect() with a boolean expression can
> force some versions of gcc to generate the integer
> value of the expression
That's more likely a side effect of the definition of likely/unlikely:
they expand to !!(x).
Andreas.
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