Paranoid NOP padding?

[Andreas Schwab]

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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