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On 03/27/2012 10:12 AM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> 
> Maybe a regular “if” instead of macro would suffice here?  Compiler should
> be smart enough to optimise out the dead path.
> 

Yes, a regular if would work, but it's also pointless.

	-hpa