Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> When we can't hint the real target, we want to hint the most common >> target. There are potentially clever ways for the compiler to do this >> automatically, but I'm most interested in giving the user some way to do >> it explicitly. One possiblity is to have something similar to >> __builtin_expect, but for functions. For example, I propose: >> >> __builtin_expect_call (FP, PFP) > > Is there a hidden benefit? I mean, isn't this really > expressable using builtin_expect as-is, at least when it comes > to the syntax?
That was my first thought as well. Before we add __builtin_expect_call, I think there needs to be a justification of why this can't be done with __builtin_expect as-is. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713
