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Re: increasing ld NOP to 4 bytes
- To: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: increasing ld NOP to 4 bytes
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:31:38 +0930
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20010817121430.D1013@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <17914.998019412@cygnus.com>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:36:52PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> is it possible to cause old NOP value's to be doubled to avoid
> having to update old ldscripts to add these values? that would
> reduce the number of changed files fairly significantly...
Yes, quite easily, with a small amount of code in linker.c:
default_fill_link_order. But that would break, eg. powerpcle
which has a nop of 0x00000060.
Alan