Re: [PATCH 1/7] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers - common module

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 02:50:43 EST


On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:23 +0100, Hansjoerg Lipp wrote:
> +#define IFNULL(a) \
> + if (unlikely(!(a)))

please please get rid of this!

first of all, gcc ALREADY treats null pointer checks as unlikely,
second of all this makes code entirely unreadable, so please just
use "if (!a)" where you would want to use IFNULL

(same goes for the variants of this just below this)

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