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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: "David Laight" <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "David Daney" <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"Coly Li" <bosong.ly@taobao.com>,
	Wang Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 12:12 [PATCH 0/6] use BUG_ON correctly, v2 Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: add unlikely() to BUG_ON() Coly Li
2011-01-27 17:50   ` David Daney
2011-01-28 10:41     ` Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/7] PowerPC: " Coly Li
2011-01-27 17:57   ` David Daney
2011-01-27 20:04     ` Scott Wood
2011-01-27 20:32       ` David Daney
2011-01-28  9:05     ` David Laight
     [not found]     ` <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6D8AC2D__37237.0892241181$1296205746$gmane$org@saturn3.aculab.com>
2011-01-28 10:14       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-01-28 11:02         ` Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 3/7] dma: use BUG_ON correctly in iop-adma.c Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 4/7] dma: use BUG_ON correctly in mv_xor.c Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 5/7] dma: use BUG_ON correctly in ppc4xx/adam.c Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] wl_cfg80211.c: use BUG_ON correctly Coly Li
2011-01-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] scsi_lib.c: " Coly Li

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