Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/ | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:05:55 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:54 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > I'd say that the general rule should > be "don't check for NULL first unless you *know* the pointer will be NULL > >50% of the time"...
How about running the same tests but using likely()/unlikely() for the '1 in 50' cases?
Lee
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