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#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
#define __LINUX_COMPILER_H

/* Somewhere in the middle of the GCC 2.96 development cycle, we implemented
   a mechanism by which the user can annotate likely branch directions and
   expect the blocks to be reordered appropriately.  Define __builtin_expect
   to nothing for earlier compilers.  */

#if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 96
#define __builtin_expect(x, expected_value) (x)
#endif

#define likely(x)	__builtin_expect((x),1)
#define unlikely(x)	__builtin_expect((x),0)

/*
 * Allow us to mark functions as 'deprecated' and have gcc emit a nice
 * warning for each use, in hopes of speeding the functions removal.
 * Usage is:
 * 		int deprecated foo(void)
 * and then gcc will emit a warning for each usage of the function.
 */
#if __GNUC__ >= 3
#define __deprecated	__attribute__((deprecated))
#else
#define __deprecated
#endif

/* This macro obfuscates arithmetic on a variable address so that gcc
   shouldn't recognize the original var, and make assumptions about it */
#define RELOC_HIDE(ptr, off)					\
  ({ unsigned long __ptr;					\
    __asm__ ("" : "=g"(__ptr) : "0"(ptr));		\
    (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
#endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */