> Right, BUG_ON was added later (possibly for the purpose of
> marking unlikely branches). I see your point now about gcc
> not recognising branches which are going to be unlikely, but
> whether or not it should is questionable IMO.
It is questionable. Since even in core kernel code there are
many places with
if (cond)
BUG();
rather than
BUG_ON(cond);
it may be worth seeing if converting them makes a difference
(increases code size though).
Ciao,
Duncan.
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