[PATCH] Use __glibc_(un)likely instead __builtin_expect.
Namhyung Kim
namhyung@gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 01:01:00 GMT 2013
Hello,
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:48:43 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:01:31AM +0200, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now I return to one of todo-list issues which is using glibc-likely/unlikely.
>>
>> First comes a easy case which can be expressed as following script.
>>
>> cat $1 | sed -e "s/if (__builtin_expect (\(.*\), 0))/if (__glibc_unlikely (\1))/" | sed -e "s/if (__builtin_expect (\(.*\), 1))/if (__glibc_likely (\1))/"
>>
>
> Based on Roland's comment, I did some automated verification of the
> patch. I found the following problems:
>
> 1. Changes in whitespace in macro definitions
> 2. Changes in whitespace in malloc routines
>
> Could you fix these and repost?
I can see following cases also:
1. if (__builtin_expect (XXX, 0) == 0)
Shouldn't it look like below?
if (__glibc_likely (XXX == 0))
2. if (__builtin_expect (YYY, 1) == 0)
Likewise
if (__glibc_unlikely (YYY == 0))
Thanks,
Namhyung
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