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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] Immediate Values - i386 Optimization
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.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