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Re: Paranoid NOP padding?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:21:12 +0200
Subject: Re: Paranoid NOP padding?
References: <20050714071837.GR6273@prism.co.za>

Bernd Jendrissek <berndj@prism.co.za> writes:

> Sometimes, though, the CPU should *never* execute code in a "gap".
> Think gaps between functions, for example.

The assembler allows you to specify a different fill pattern to be used as
padding (the second argument of the .align directive).

Andreas.

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