commit 5e582c7ffafd9075373131e5e55b69507f54206e Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Mon Oct 15 10:16:34 2018 -0400 Explain a bit more about branch prediction in the unit-test case --- src/common/util_bug.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/common/util_bug.h b/src/common/util_bug.h index 22ec37d38..f3e5b7c96 100644 --- a/src/common/util_bug.h +++ b/src/common/util_bug.h @@ -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) \ ({ \