Manoj K Sharma wrote:
Hi All,
I have recently shifted from x86 based targets to Pentium based. This
obviously resulted in shift from gcc for I80486 to gcc pentium cross
compiler.
I see some increase in my .text segment size(compare to gcc for I80486).
On investigating it, I found that it is mainly because lot of NOPs being
insterted in between. This results in bigger .text segment than what I
see in case of gcc for I80486.
Could some one please explain whats the idea behind inserting these many
NOPs ???
cache aligning jump targets -- especially in loops.
nathan
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