Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:46:05 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] if ... BUG() -> BUG_ON() |
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> You know, I dislike this. > > The right fix is to hack gcc to allow functions (in this case, BUG()) to have > an "unlikely" attribute, and therefore know that this branch is unlikely.
FYI the ppc32 and ppc64 BUG_ON avoids the branch completely thanks to some clever code from paulus. Im not however advocating we rip through the entire kernel and BUG_ON enable it :)
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