Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 20:29, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> One thing that's not very clear to me is which of these spellings
>> is preferable:
>> if (unlikely(val2 == 0.0) && !isnan(val1))
>> if (unlikely(val2 == 0.0 && !isnan(val1)))
> My guess is that the first would be better, since it would tell the
> compiler that it's unlikely to need to do the NaN test,
Yeah, that's the straightforward way to think about it, but I've
found that gcc is sometimes less than straightforward ;-). Still,
there's no obvious reason to do it the second way, so I pushed the
first way.
regards, tom lane
