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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - [X86] long nop generation is guarded incorrectly"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35686">35686</a>
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        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[X86] long nop generation is guarded incorrectly
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
          </td>
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Backend: X86
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>asb@lowrisc.org
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
          </td>
        </tr></table>
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        <pre>The intent of the HasNopl code in X86AsmBackend seems to be that long nops
should _not_ be generated when the target CPU is "generic" or "i686" (among
others). Consider the following input (from test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s):

inc %eax
.p2align 5
inc %eax

This generates long nops when there is no explicit -mcpu argument, because the
empty cpu string isn't tested when setting HasNopl:
./bin/llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux-gnu
../test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s | ./bin/llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn -

<stdin>:        file format ELF32-i386

Disassembly of section .text:
.text:
       0:       incl    %eax
       1:       nopw    %cs:(%eax,%eax)
      10:       nopw    %cs:(%eax,%eax)
      1f:       nop
      20:       incl    %eax

And short nops when explicitly passing -mcpu=generic:
./bin/llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux-gnu -mcpu=generic
../test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s | ./bin/llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn -

<stdin>:        file format ELF32-i386

Disassembly of section .text:
.text:
       0:       incl    %eax
       1:       nop
       2:       nop
       3:       nop
       4:       nop
       5:       nop
       6:       nop
       7:       nop
       8:       nop
       9:       nop
       a:       nop
       b:       nop
       c:       nop
       d:       nop
       e:       nop
       f:       nop
      10:       nop
      11:       nop
      12:       nop
      13:       nop
      14:       nop
      15:       nop
      16:       nop
      17:       nop
      18:       nop
      19:       nop
      1a:       nop
      1b:       nop
      1c:       nop
      1d:       nop
      1e:       nop
      1f:       nop
      20:       incl    %eax

See also: <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D41349">https://reviews.llvm.org/D41349</a> which exposes this issue ensuring
that "generic" is always given as the CPU string rather than the empty string.</pre>
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