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Subject: Re: [RFC] gcc feature request: Moving blocks into sections
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On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 14:43 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> For unconditional jmp that should be pretty safe barring any fundamental
> changes to the instruction set, in which case we can enable it as
> needed, but for extra robustness it probably should skip prefix bytes.

Would the assembler add prefix bytes to:

	jmp 1f

1:

??

-- Steve


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