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From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
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>> >Why ? It works in the 2.96 snapshots. So 2.96+ is fine.
>> 
>> GCC snapshots have called themselves 2.97 since last September.  "2.96" just
>> means that it's some random old version.  Yours happens to work; there's no 
>> guarantee that everybody else's will too.
>
>2.97+ are also all random snapshots most of which dont actually work. Im 
>obviously missing a point here.

Are you being deliberately obtuse?  2.97+ snapshots do all support 
builtin_expect, which is what we were discussing.

p.


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