From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
To: matthew green <mrg@cygnus.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
cgen@sources.redhat.com, sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: branch probability hinting
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9D9D66.71176AB@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6863.983407030.cygnus.local.cgen@cygnus.com>
matthew green wrote:
>
> i like this, but i don't like the name very much. in NetBSD,
> we've added predict_true() and predict_false().
Well, builtin is the default name for compiler um.. well.. builtins.
It's been around for a while.
Unless you meant the name that Frank chose, yeah, it could be better.
Personally, I like expect as a name for it, tells you what you are
telling the compiler to expect to happen.
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-28 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-28 14:35 Frank Ch. Eigler
2001-02-28 15:01 ` Greg McGary
2001-02-28 16:37 ` matthew green
[not found] ` <6863.983407030.cygnus.local.cgen@cygnus.com>
2001-02-28 16:50 ` Eric Christopher [this message]
2001-02-28 17:04 ` matthew green
2001-03-01 9:13 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2001-03-01 9:21 ` Dave Brolley
2001-03-01 9:32 ` Greg McGary
2001-03-01 9:26 ` Greg McGary
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