Code Branch Optimization - How to specify rarely used path?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 26, 2001, "Rimmer, Todd" <trimmer@infiniconsys.com> wrote:

> What I would like is a way to tell the compiler that the call to
> LogPrint (ie. the then clause of the if) is rarely taken.

See __builtin_expect() in the GCC manual of a development snapshot of
2.97 or newer.

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