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Re: Add support for the Win32 hook prologue (try 3)
Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Saturday 12 September 2009 15:09:18 schrieb Dave Korn:
>> ".align X,0x90" or ".align X,0xcc" should work. The .align instruction
>> has optional second and third operands which are little-used; check the GAS
>> manual for the full syntax.
> align X, 0x90 doesn't work, as someone else has already posted. Gas still
> replaces e.g. 3 NOPs generated by that with one 3-byte nop.
Argh, missed that.
I think that should probably be considered a binutils bug shouldn't it? I
don't think it should relax an explicit ".align X,0x90" any more than it
should relax "dc.b 0x90,0x90,0x90" IMO.
cheers,
DaveK