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From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: "Stefan Dösinger" <stefan@codeweavers.com>
Cc: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,   Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	 Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>,
	  "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Add support for the Win32 hook prologue (try 3)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AABBDB7.70501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909121522.40419.stefan@codeweavers.com>

Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Saturday 12 September 2009 15:09:18 schrieb Dave Korn:
>>   ".align X,0x90" or ".align X,0xcc" should work.  The .align instruction
>> has optional second and third operands which are little-used; check the GAS
>> manual for the full syntax.
> align X, 0x90 doesn't work, as someone else has already posted. Gas still 
> replaces e.g. 3 NOPs generated by that with one 3-byte nop.

  Argh, missed that.

  I think that should probably be considered a binutils bug shouldn't it?  I
don't think it should relax an explicit ".align X,0x90" any more than it
should relax "dc.b 0x90,0x90,0x90" IMO.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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