http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49146
--- Comment #5 from Ben Woodard <woodard at redhat dot com> --- Ariel, In talking to the engineers regarding this, they would like _builtin_expect hints to tell the compiler to generate code saying that hitting this is unlikely. http://blog.man7.org/2012/10/how-much-do-builtinexpect-likely-and.html