Re: killing registers

[Ted U <grendel_(_at_)_heorot_(_dot_)_stanford_(_dot_)_edu>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marc Espie wrote:

> > While "C" may not, just about every modern compiler includes extensions to
> > declare stuff like that.  The kernel even uses some of them.
>
> Fascinating.
>
> I don't see any branching hints stuff in the OpenBSD kernel, nor in gcc
> prior to 3.x.

Well, since I was just looking at it, what about the splassert stuff?
sys/arch/i386/include/intr.h:24  __predict_false(splassert_cpl > 0)

What's that?


--
If you ever would give them a helping hand,
You can be sure they'll chop off the arm.
Never, ever, never trust a Klingon; you will always regret it.