-fpatchable-function-entry is used by Linux kernel arm64/parisc. The
feature works for x86, but does not leverage multi-byte NOP.
% cat a.c
int foo() { return 0; }
% gcc -fpatchable-function-entry=5,0 -c a.c
% objdump -d a.o
...
0000000000000000 <foo>:
0: 90 nop
1: 90 nop
2: 90 nop
3: 90 nop
4: 90 nop
5: 55 push %rbp
6: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
9: b8 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%eax
e: 5d pop %rbp
f: c3 retq
(I am not sure who should be notified. I CCed x86-64-port maintainer
(Jan Hubicka <[email protected]>), as listed on gcc/MAINTAINERS.)
