| Index: src/ia32/assembler-ia32.h
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| --- src/ia32/assembler-ia32.h	(revision 2251)
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| +++ src/ia32/assembler-ia32.h	(working copy)
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| @@ -396,10 +396,15 @@
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|  
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|  class Assembler : public Malloced {
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|   private:
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| -  // The relocation writer's position is kGap bytes below the end of
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| +  // We check before assembling an instruction that there is sufficient
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| +  // space to write an instruction and its relocation information.
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| +  // The relocation writer's position must be kGap bytes above the end of
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|    // the generated instructions. This leaves enough space for the
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| -  // longest possible ia32 instruction (17 bytes as of 9/26/06) and
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| -  // allows for a single, fast space check per instruction.
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| +  // longest possible ia32 instruction, 15 bytes, and the longest possible
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| +  // relocation information encoding, RelocInfoWriter::kMaxLength == 16.
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| +  // (There is a 15 byte limit on ia32 instruction length that rules out some
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| +  // otherwise valid instructions.)
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| +  // This allows for a single, fast space check per instruction.
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|    static const int kGap = 32;
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|  
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|   public:
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