On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:29:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> It's a pity that gas seems to generate plain 0x90 nops rather than > >> long-nop forms here. I thought it could do that. > >> > > > > .p2align does it > > Just .p2align? Not align, balign, org or skip? Seems... strange.
The problem is that you cannot always safely jump into the middle of the longer form nops. So I suppose they didn't risk breakage on older code relying on this. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
