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Re: [PATCH] x86: Add .nop directive to assembler

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew dot cooper3 at citrix dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:24:10 +1030
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add .nop directive to assembler
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 06:24:04AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> .nop is similar to .skip, except that it fills with NOPs.  Yes, it can be used
> wherever .skip can be used.

Given https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-02/msg00322.html I'm
inclined to think the name of the directive should change.
.skipnops perhaps?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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