Mithun R N Iyer wrote: > Hi All: I see these weird jmps to middle of > instructions in a binary. > > This is on x86, ubuntu gcc version: 4.1.3 with -O2 > optimization. > > Can someone please let me know why such jumps are > generated ? I have seen such jmps in case of lock > prefix instructions but do not see any such > instructions here. > There is no assembly code added in the sources. > > The code snippet looks like: > 0x0006c007 <strrchr+103>: add %al,(%eax) > 0x0006c009 <strrchr+105>: add > %al,0xee8304ee(%ebx) When you build strrchr, generate an assembly file by compiling with -save-temps. I think you will find this is not code, but data. Andrew.
