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Re: New .nops directive, to aid Linux alternatives patching?

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:47:53PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 08/02/2018 20:36, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > How about this
> >
> > {nop} N, L
> > {nop} N
> >
> > N is < =255. If L is missing, L is 15.
> >
> > If N < L then
> >   Long NOPs up to N bytes
> > else
> >   jmp + long nops up to N bytes.
> > fi
> 
> I'm afraid that I don't think that will be very helpful in that form. 

Wrong punctuation.  You missed a full stop after "think".

Just how does this not give you what you were asking for at the
beginning of this thread?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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