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Re: Add support for the Win32 hook prologue (try 3)


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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