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Re: m68k padding between methods at ld time


Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been looking at an objdump of a Coldfire application
> and noticed that the fill pattern between methods is
> 0x4e75 which is an rts not 0x4e71 which is a nop.
>
> Is this because ld/emulparams/m68kelf.sh has this:
>
> NOP=0x4e754e75
>
> This is with pre-release snapshots and the CVS head
> for the source check.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --joel

What is the problem with that? If someone jumps between functions it
would return instead of running into the following function. Seems
more sane.

MfG
        Goswin


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