+#define __pure __attribute__((pure))
+#define __aligned(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))
+#define __printf(a, b) __attribute__((format(printf, a, b)))
+#define __scanf(a, b) __attribute__((format(scanf, a, b)))
+#define __attribute_const__ __attribute__((__const__))
+#define __maybe_unused __attribute__((unused))
+#define __always_unused __attribute__((unused))
+
+/* gcc version specific checks */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION < 30200
+# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION < 30300
+# define __used __attribute__((__unused__))
+#else
+# define __used __attribute__((__used__))
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
+# if GCC_VERSION < 30400
+# error "GCOV profiling support for gcc versions below 3.4 not included"
+# endif /* __GNUC_MINOR__ */
+#endif /* CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 30400
+#define __must_check __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40000
+
+/* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+# if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 && GCC_VERSION <= 40101
+# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
+# endif
+#endif
+
+#define __used __attribute__((__used__))
+#define __compiler_offsetof(a, b) \
+ __builtin_offsetof(a, b)
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40100 && GCC_VERSION < 40600
+# define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
+#endif
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40300
+/* 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__))
+
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
+#ifndef __CHECKER__
+# define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
+# define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
+#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40300 */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40500
+/*
+ * 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()
+
+/* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
+#define __noclone __attribute__((__noclone__))
+
+#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40500 */
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40600
+/*
+ * When used with Link Time Optimization, gcc can optimize away C functions or
+ * variables which are referenced only from assembly code. __visible tells the
+ * optimizer that something else uses this function or variable, thus preventing
+ * this.
+ */
+#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))