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Re: [SPATCH] Use __glibc_likely and __glibc_unlikely.


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:30:11PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013, OndÅYej BÃlka wrote:
> 
> > http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/expect.patch
> 
> This appears to be consistently missing a space before the open 
> parenthesis, "__glibc_likely(".  It also appears to have produced too-long 
> lines, losing newlines inside the calls when instead the multiline call 
> contents should be reindented appropriately and only move onto a single 
> line when the change makes the contents short enough to do so.
>
This will wait for 2.19.

These cleanups will be easy but large.
I could show that patch is isomorpic by compiling libc, applying patch
and comparing md5 of compiled libc.

This rules out errors by accident. You need bit of care as malicous
patch could change dead code and then other malicous patch could enable
it.

Ondra


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