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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: Aleksey Baulin <aleksey.baulin@gmail.com>
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> On Nov 19, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Aleksey Baulin <aleksey.baulin@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>=20
> A warning is issued when using an argument to likely() or unlikely()
> builtins which is evaluated to a pointer value, as __builtin_expect()
> expects a 'long int' type for its first argument. With this fix
> a pointer value is converted to an integer with the value of 0 or 1.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Aleksey Baulin <Aleksey.Baulin@gmail.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_branch_prediction.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>=20
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_branch_prediction.h b/lib/=
librte_eal/common/include/rte_branch_prediction.h
> index a6a56d1..2e7dc69 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_branch_prediction.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_branch_prediction.h
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
>  *
>  */
> #ifndef likely
> -#define likely(x)  __builtin_expect((x),1)
> +#define likely(x)	__builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
> #endif /* likely */
>=20
> /**
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
>  *
>  */
> #ifndef unlikely
> -#define unlikely(x)  __builtin_expect((x),0)
> +#define unlikely(x)	__builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)

I have not looked at the generated code, but does this add some extra instr=
uction now to do the !!(x) ?

> #endif /* unlikely */
>=20
> #endif /* _RTE_BRANCH_PREDICTION_H_ */
> --=20
> 2.7.4
>=20

Regards,
Keith