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@@ -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