Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:58:39 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers |
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* Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com> wrote:
> I actually did that in a project once (an "unlikely_if()" macro) It > was not a good idea. The problem is that every syntax-highlighter > knows that "if" is a keyword but you'd have to teach it about > "unlikely_if". It was surprising how visually jarring having > different pretty-printing for different types of "if" statements was. > "if (unlikely())" looks much cleaner in comparison.
a better syntax would be:
if __unlikely (cond) { ... }
since it's the extra parantheses that are causing the visual complexity.
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