On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 12:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers > <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> wrote: > > > > I remember that choosing between 2 and 5 bytes nop in the asm goto was > > tricky: it had something to do with the fact that gcc doesn't know the > > exact size of each instructions until further down within compilation > > Oh, you can't do it in the coompiler, no. But you don't need to. The > assembler will pick the right version if you just do "jmp target".
Right, and that's exactly what my patches did. -- Steve
