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diff --git a/src/development/gcc.md b/src/development/gcc.md index 88e44fc..39ae753 100644 --- a/src/development/gcc.md +++ b/src/development/gcc.md @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ Give the compiler a hint which branch is hot, so it can lay out the code accordingly to reduce number of jump instructions. See on [compiler explorer](https://godbolt.org/z/MbTHAP). +The semantics of this hint are as follows, the compiler prioritises `expr == +cond`. So `__builtin_expect(expr, 0)` means that we expect the `expr` to be `0` +most of the time. + ```bash echo " extern void foo(); |