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Interpretation when omitted

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This option generates and reserves a section in an area that can be prefetched.

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An area for 16 bytes following the end of a section that can be accessed for the prefetch operation of the processor is reserved as an NOP instruction section.

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The section is output with the following section name obtained from the name of the section immediately before the inserted NOP instruction.

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If an area for the section cannot be reserved, an error occurs.

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If the input file has the absolute format, this option outputs an error message and terminates execution.

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If form={object | relocate | library | binary} is specified, this option outputs an error message and terminates execution.

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When overlaid sections are specified by the start option, NOP instructions are not inserted for a string of sections specified as being overlaid by the start option.

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If a section with size 0 is allocated immediately after the program section, the NOP instruction is inserted immediately after that section.