On 18 March 2017 at 20:25, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I have always wondered why the arm ldscript pads with 0x90.  I don't
> know if I feel any better now, knowing that it's because that's an x86
> nop instruction. :)

Heh!

We used to pad the amd64, i386, and arm64 EFI loaders with
0x00300000010070000002000001000400, which is some ia64 instruction
sequence :-)

The arm padding ought to be switched to a breakpoint instruction or
some other trap or guaranteed illegal instruction.
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