From:	dmcneill AT pne DOT co DOT uk (Dave McNeill)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Aligning Loops
Date:	Tue, 06 May 1997 14:05:15 GMT
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I noticed something strange today while examining
compiler output.  gcc had emitted '.align 2,0x90'
to insert NOP's into the compiled code.  When I
took a disassembly of the resulting .EXE, gas had
assembled the above as 'lea esi,[esi]' (8dh, 36h).

Why?

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