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Re: [PATCH] x86: Add .nop directive to assembler

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew dot cooper3 at citrix dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:08:38 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add .nop directive to assembler
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, Alan Modra wrote:

> > .nop is similar to .skip, except that it fills with NOPs.  Yes, it can be used
> > wherever .skip can be used.
> 
> Given https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-02/msg00322.html I'm
> inclined to think the name of the directive should change.
> .skipnops perhaps?

 Just `.nops' maybe?  There doesn't appear to be any matching mnemonic in 
opcodes/.

  Maciej

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