On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Martin Liška wrote: > You are right, we do not leverage multi-byte NOPs. Note that the support > depends > on a CPU model (-march) and the similar code is quite complex in binutils: > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gas/config/tc-i386.c;h=d0b8f2624a1885d83d2595474bfd78ae844f48f2;hb=HEAD#l1441 > > I'm not sure how worthy would it be to implement that?
Huh? Surely the right move would be to ask Binutils to expose that via a new pseudo-op, like .balign but requesting a specific space rather than aligning up to a boundary. Alexander
