[ARM] use architectural nops

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 10:46:00 GMT 2009


Hi Nathan,

> This patch changes arm's code alignment to use architectural nop 
> instructions, when available.  For thumb2 we generate 4 byte nops when 
> possible, rather than pairs of 2-byte nops.
> 
> tested for arm-eabi.

Please could you test an arm-elf toolchain as well, just to make sure. 
Assuming that this passes OK then the patch is approved.

Cheers
   Nick




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