Re: Using __builtin_expect (likely/unlikely macros)

[Paul Eggert]

Alex Gramiak wrote:
> Though I don't think that these macros, used sparingly around code such
> as emacs_abort, would make it harder to read/write/maintain.

These macro calls would not help near calls to emacs_abort, as it should already 
be obvious to a careful human reader that the jump to emacs_abort is the road 
less traveled. (That's also obvious to GCC, since emacs_abort is _Noreturn.)