From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <3A9D9D66.71176AB@redhat.com>
References: <20010228173521.A14580@redhat.com> <6863.983407030.cygnus.local.cgen@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00075.html

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