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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:27:10 GMT, David Howells said:

> __builtin_expect() is useful on FRV where you _have_ to give each branch and
> conditional branch instruction a measure of probability whether the branch
> will be taken.

What does gcc do the 99.998% of the time we don't have likely/unlikely coded?

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