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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] handle multibyte NOPs
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:28:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608190128.12476.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2fa41d60608181640l34ce4bf7kb309a52dc5ef565d@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 19 August 2006 00:40, Igor Kovalenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This patch adds handling of multi-byte NOPs, recent gcc/gas uses them for
> x86 code padding.
> Patch checked with current opensuse-factory x86 guest installation which is
> built with new gcc/gas tools.

According to my amd64 documentation all of the opcodes 0f 19 through 0f 1f 
should be implemented as a NOP. Also, I suspect the "invalid" prefetch ops 
(0f 18) should also be implemented as nops.
The same implementation should be useable to all these opcodes.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-19  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-18 23:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] handle multibyte NOPs Igor Kovalenko
2006-08-19  0:28 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-08-20 21:51   ` Igor Kovalenko
2006-08-20 22:15     ` malc
2006-08-20 22:28       ` Igor Kovalenko
2006-08-20 22:39         ` malc
2006-08-20 22:47           ` Igor Kovalenko
2006-08-20 23:18             ` malc
2006-08-30 19:27               ` Igor Kovalenko

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