/********************************************************************************
* File:			Step1.c
* 
* Description:	This microbenchmark answers the question:
*				What is maximum length of the "spy" branch pattern 
*				that would be correctly predicted when the spy branch 
*				is the only branch in a loop? 
*
* Date:			April 2002
* 
* Author:		M.Milenkovic - milena@computer.org
**********************************************************************************/

#define L 10								/* pattern length */

void main(void)
{ 
   int long unsigned	i;					/* loop index */
   int					a=1;				/* variable with conditional assignment*/
   int long unsigned	liter = 10000000;	/* number of iterations */

   for (i=0; i<liter; ++i){
      if ((i%L) == 0) a=0;					/* spy branch */
   }
}