On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:36:06AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > Does it do any harm to put it there unconditionally? Blows up your text footprint and I$ pressure. These instructions are 4 bytes each. Aside from that, they're a NOP, so only consume front-end resources (hopefully) on older CPUs and when IBT is disabled.