Keith Owens wrote:
> Trent Piepho (on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:31:36 -0700 (PDT)) wrote:
>> Adding __builtin_trap after the
>> asm might be an ok fix. It will emit a spurious int 6, but that won't even
>> be
>> reached since the asm doesn't return, and it probably be less extra code than
>> the loop.
>
> int 6 is a two byte instruction, the loop generates jmp with an 8 bit
> offset, also two bytes. No change in code size.
>
INT 6 is #UD, so the __builtin_trap() replaces the ud2a as well as the loop.
How far back was __builtin_trap() supported?
-hpa
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