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From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-19 16:03:06


From: "Marcin Kalicinski" <kalita_at_[hidden]>
>
> >Interesting. I'd have thought that calling __assume(0) was
> >useless, but it tells the optimizer that the else clause won't
> >occur. I wonder if that will work at all or as well as
> >BOOST_ASSERT(e); __assume(e);
>
> It's not useless, see my previous posts in the thread for examples of code
> generated with and without __assume(0).

I said "I would have thought [it] was useless." However, I
consulted the documentation and found that it was useful. That's
why I said it was "interesting."

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