linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values

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Message-ID: <46F0521F.10302@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:33:03 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> writes:
>>   
>>> It's a pity that gas seems to generate plain 0x90 nops rather than
>>> long-nop forms here.  I thought it could do that.
>>>     
>> .p2align does it
> 
> Just .p2align?  Not align, balign, org or skip?  Seems... strange.
> 

Probably it works for .align and .balign too, but not .org.

	-hpa
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