These macros allow the compile to better optimise code that has a lot
of if statements. I particularly want to use this for our low level
generated NDR code.
+/* these macros gain us a few percent of speed on gcc */
+#if (__GNUC__ >= 3)
+/* the strange !! is to ensure that __builtin_expect() takes either 0 or 1
+ as its first argument */
+#ifndef likely
+#define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
+#endif
+#ifndef unlikely
+#define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
+#endif
+#else
+#ifndef likely
+#define likely(x) (x)
+#endif
+#ifndef unlikely
+#define unlikely(x) (x)
+#endif
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LIBREPLACE_REPLACE_H */
#endif /* _LIBREPLACE_REPLACE_H */