m68k padding between methods at ld time

Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
Tue Sep 29 12:53:00 GMT 2009


Hi Nick and Joel,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:33:42AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
>> Thanks.  I do not have a tree for writing checked out at the
>> moment.  Attached is the patch.
>
> Just to be clear - why do you want NOP instructions rather than RTS 
> instructions ?

And why not put there some illegal instruction so that an errant program
would crash more quickly ?

Philippe



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