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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2018-10-15 10:16:34 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2018-10-15 10:16:34 -0400
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Explain a bit more about branch prediction in the unit-test case
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diff --git a/src/common/util_bug.h b/src/common/util_bug.h
index 22ec37d38f..f3e5b7c963 100644
--- a/src/common/util_bug.h
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@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
* and then passed right to a conditional. If you do anything else to the
* expression here, or introduce any more parentheses, the compiler won't
* help you.
+ *
+ * We only do this for the unit-test build case because it interferes with
+ * the likely-branch labeling. Note below that in the other case, we define
+ * these macros to just be synonyms for PREDICT_(UN)LIKELY.
*/
#define ASSERT_PREDICT_UNLIKELY_(e) \
({ \