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Re: [applied mips patch] fix relax-swapN tests


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 cgd@broadcom.com wrote:

> Well, so, in general, it prints "nop" when it has one word (4 bytes)
> of contiguous 0 in location (where it expects instructions), or "..."
> when it has 2 or more words.

 That I've already figured out.

> the disassembler will start dumping a new stream of instructions -- to
> be interpreted as nop or ... -- after the last label (i don't
> understand the mechanics, it just happens that way).  So, the question
> becomes, given alignment/padding enforced by the assembler, how many
> words of 0 show up after the final label?

 I see -- I haven't expected a label triggers output of mnemonics itself.

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