On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:26 +0800, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I know that these are microsoft inventions but does GCC support anything > similar? > > Is there any reason why you couldnt add support for these keywords (or > something similar to them) in GCC? We have builtin_expect(x,y) -> tell the compiler that the value of x is most likely y, and optimize for that. builtin_return_address and i'm not sure what nop does Does it really output a nop to the instruction stream? Or is it just an empty statement in the IL. If just an empty statement in the IL, you can use (void)0; > >
