Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:42:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: .align directives in libc.a
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:

> Can we tell Gas to use "int 3" (or other trap) when pading between functions?

The alignment pseudo-ops allow to define the value of the byte with
which to pad.  Thus, ".p2align 3,0xcc" should pad to 8-byte boundary
with Int 3 instructions.

But why is this a good idea?