Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

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* Mitchell Blank Jr <[email protected]> wrote:

> I actually did that in a project once (an "unlikely_if()" macro) It 
> was not a good idea.  The problem is that every syntax-highlighter 
> knows that "if" is a keyword but you'd have to teach it about 
> "unlikely_if".  It was surprising how visually jarring having 
> different pretty-printing for different types of "if" statements was.  
> "if (unlikely())" looks much cleaner in comparison.

a better syntax would be:

	if __unlikely (cond) {
		...
	}

since it's the extra parantheses that are causing the visual complexity.

	Ingo
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