Why does gcc output machine code have nop instructions

。_饼干妹妹 提交于 2019-12-08 14:50:33

问题


Everytime I do an objdump -d I always see the asm code with batches of nop instructions (instructions that do nothing)

For example take this same program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Hello World!\n");
    printf("cos:  %f\n", cos(1));
    return 1;
}

The objdump for exampe has 2 nops at the end of the entry point

0000000000400450 <_start>:
400450: 31 ed                   xor    %ebp,%ebp
400452: 49 89 d1                mov    %rdx,%r9
400455: 5e                      pop    %rsi
400456: 48 89 e2                mov    %rsp,%rdx
400459: 48 83 e4 f0             and    $0xfffffffffffffff0,%rsp
40045d: 50                      push   %rax
40045e: 54                      push   %rsp
40045f: 49 c7 c0 00 06 40 00    mov    $0x400600,%r8
400466: 48 c7 c1 70 05 40 00    mov    $0x400570,%rcx
40046d: 48 c7 c7 34 05 40 00    mov    $0x400534,%rdi
400474: e8 bf ff ff ff          callq  400438 <__libc_start_main@plt>
400479: f4                      hlt    
40047a: 90                      nop
40047b: 90                      nop 

And that is just one of many examples but you get the idea. Why is the C code compiled this way? Thanks in Advance.


回答1:


Very often those are just used to do padding so that subsequent stuff starts on a word or boundary again, as access to arbitrary code that is not aligned on word boundaries is much more expensive for the cpu.




回答2:


The nops are added to force the next function align to the 4-byte boundary. (notice that the address following the last nop will be 40047c which is divisible by 4)



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5901827/why-does-gcc-output-machine-code-have-nop-instructions

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