From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: "David Laight" <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Coly Li <bosong.ly@taobao.com>,
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
Wang Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] PowerPC: add unlikely() to BUG_ON()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:14:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31v3xxrlz.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6D8AC2D__37237.0892241181$1296205746$gmane$org@saturn3.aculab.com> (David Laight's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:05:59 -0000")
"David Laight" <David.Laight@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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2011-01-27 17:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] PowerPC: add unlikely() to BUG_ON() David Daney
2011-01-27 20:04 ` Scott Wood
2011-01-27 20:32 ` David Daney
2011-01-28 9:05 ` David Laight
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2011-01-28 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-01-28 11:02 ` Coly Li
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