Calling gen_nop.

[Richard Earnshaw]

> > Nope.  Tried that.  The code in get_insn_template aborts if the template 
> > is a function and there is no rtl to pass to it as a parameter.
> 
> How about (ab)using assembler dialects?


I don't want to do that.  The assembler dialect code, IIRC, switches on 
'{', which is used for ARM assembly output (load/store multiple).  So 
making the two work correctly would be a lot of work to overcome what is a 
hack in the main part of the compiler.