Re: [git pull] x86 fixes

[H. Peter Anvin]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Well, for one thing, gcc doesn't actually pass the -mtune= option to  
> > gas, it turns out.
>
> What caused gas to emit the "wrong" NOPs?

It doesn't, after all, with the current gcc driver.  A future gcc driver 
may change that.  Of course, now when this has popped up on the radar 
screen, it might not happen.

> > But yes, "-Wa,-march=generic32" is really the proper fix.
>
> If I understand the binutils changelog correctly -march=generic32 
> support was added one week before the NOP code in question, so all 
> affected binutils versions support it.

s/-march/-mtune/, but yes.  I suspect it was actually added *in order* 
to support the NOP code.

	-hpa
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