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Re: m68k padding between methods at ld time

From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm at macqel dot be>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:53:21 +0200
Subject: Re: m68k padding between methods at ld time
References: <4ABF9919.2070909@oarcorp.com> <4AC0773F.1060501@redhat.com> <4AC0BA51.3080908@oarcorp.com> <4AC1D476.6090606@redhat.com>

Hi Nick and Joel,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:33:42AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
>> Thanks.  I do not have a tree for writing checked out at the
>> moment.  Attached is the patch.
>
> Just to be clear - why do you want NOP instructions rather than RTS 
> instructions ?

And why not put there some illegal instruction so that an errant program
would crash more quickly ?

Philippe

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