NOP_OPCODE

[Vineet Sharma, Noida]

Hi Nick,
		Actually i am porting GAS to new DSP processor. Host is
i686-pc-linux-gnu . Well i found this problem while debugging rather than
through test cases. And even after going through code, i coudn't find a fix
for it.

Thanks in advance
Vineet

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Clifton [mailto:nickc@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:25 PM
To: Vineet Sharma, Noida
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: NOP_OPCODE


Hi Vineet,

> The GAS 2.13.1 design does not take care of filling the
> alignment(rs_fill frag) if NOP_OPCODE is greater than 1 byte.It just
> fills it with the first byte of NOP_OPCODE. It is a big
> limitation. Has any one encountered this kind of problem? Any
> suggestions/help?

You have not mentioned which platform you are using.  It is possible
that this is a platform specific bug.  Similarly you have not provided
a test case so we cannot evaluate whether there is some kind of
problem with the way that the link is being performed.

> Has this been taken care in 2.14 version?

This problem was actually fixed a long time ago, and the fix is in the
2.13 sources.  If you would care to download the 2.14 sources however
you may find that the problem is solved due to other bugs being fixed.

Cheers
        Nick