[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] '/nop' illegal for old versions of GAS

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:18:59PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> >> if you do that, use #define NOP " # nop" and then use NOP
> >
> >I hope this change or something similar is acceptable to you, since
> >I'll be using the same assembler code (based on gas 1.38) on my
> >i386-linux. :) Apple was actually rather smart in choosing something
> >gas-1.38-based since all the newer versions use libbfd.
> 
> If I remember right 'nop' is actually 'mov eax,eax'. Would the
> assembler accept that form?

RTFmichael! We do not want a nop opcode (or any opcode) but rather a
comment (something which assembles to no bytes).

Rich