[PATCH] Use __glibc_(un)likely instead __builtin_expect.
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Sat Feb 8 14:43:00 GMT 2014
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:49:11 Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:48:43PM +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 reposted patch but sourceware thinks its spam,
>
> To avoid that use following link:
>
> http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/libc_likely.patch
the ChangeLog entries need line wrapping
i did a scan of the diff and it looked fine. i did notice some entries with
redundant paren, but it's not entirely something you introduced:
- else if (__builtin_expect ((a < 0.0), 1))
+ else if (__glibc_likely ((a < 0.0)))
so if it compiled fine, LGTM
-mike
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