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| author | Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> | 2017-11-29 10:22:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> | 2017-11-29 10:22:26 -0800 |
| commit | f923328821e2e835c725822bce2aac6e10c52dd9 (patch) | |
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In x86 -n docs, mention that you need an explicit nop fill byte.
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PR gas/22464
* doc/c-i386.texi (-n): Clarify docs.
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diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 0512f23..8124043 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2017-11-29 Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> + + PR gas/22464 + * doc/c-i386.texi (-n): Clarify docs. + 2017-11-29 Renlin Li <renlin.li@arm.com> * config/tc-aarch64.c (reg_names): Fix IP1 register alias typo. diff --git a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi index a1d33bd..a0e280c 100644 --- a/gas/doc/c-i386.texi +++ b/gas/doc/c-i386.texi @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ usage and use x86-64 as target platform). @item -n By default, x86 GAS replaces multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections with multi-byte nop instructions such -as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This switch disables the optimization. +as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This switch disables the optimization if a single +byte nop (0x90) is explicitly specified as the fill byte for alignment. @cindex @samp{--divide} option, i386 @item --divide |