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+#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H
+#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc4.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
+#endif
+
+/* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+# if __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ <= 1
+# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
+# endif
+#endif
+
+#define __used __attribute__((__used__))
+#define __must_check __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+#define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b)
+#define __always_inline inline __attribute__((always_inline))
+
+/*
+ * A trick to suppress uninitialized variable warning without generating any
+ * code
+ */
+#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
+
+#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3
+/* Mark functions as cold. gcc will assume any path leading to a call
+ to them will be unlikely. This means a lot of manual unlikely()s
+ are unnecessary now for any paths leading to the usual suspects
+ like BUG(), printk(), panic() etc. [but let's keep them for now for
+ older compilers]
+
+ Early snapshots of gcc 4.3 don't support this and we can't detect this
+ in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're unreleased.
+ Maketime probing would be overkill here.
+
+ gcc also has a __attribute__((__hot__)) to move hot functions into
+ a special section, but I don't see any sense in this right now in
+ the kernel context */
+#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__))
+
+
+#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
+/*
+ * Mark a position in code as unreachable. This can be used to
+ * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
+ * control elsewhere.
+ *
+ * Early snapshots of gcc 4.5 don't support this and we can't detect
+ * this in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're
+ * unreleased. Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
+ */
+#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
+#endif
+
+#endif
+
+#if __GNUC_MINOR__ > 0
+#define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
+#endif
+#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
+#define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
+#define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
+#endif