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Re: Paranoid NOP padding?

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at c2micro dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 14 Jul 2005 10:01:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Paranoid NOP padding?
References: <20050714071837.GR6273@prism.co.za> <jer7e13iiv.fsf@sykes.suse.de><20050714095929.GT4740@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> But linker inserts padding as well, when padding in code segment between
> different input sections.  So it needs a binutils change as well.

A minor one, though, as you can specify the fill pattern in the linker
script.  Just set NOP in the emulparams file.  E.g.,
ld/emulparams/elf_i386.sh, which currently uses 0x90.

Ian

References:
- Paranoid NOP padding?
  - From: Bernd Jendrissek
- Re: Paranoid NOP padding?
  - From: Andreas Schwab
- Re: Paranoid NOP padding?
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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