My guess is, the nop is there to make sure the literal pool is word-aligned.
As for the bug, our hope is that the guys from GNU ARM Embedded pick it up and report upstream. I don't think there is a point for you to try and pinpoint the exact commit that introduced it.
My guess is, the nop is there to make sure the literal pool is word-aligned.
As for the bug, our hope is that the guys from GNU ARM Embedded pick it up and report upstream. I don't think there is a point for you to try and pinpoint the exact commit that introduced it.