>As I understand it, all gcc has to do, is to put an extra NOP
>before the LDM or LDR instruction if the instruction-address is
>on a page boundary. This should make the code runnable on all
>ARM processors. 

The problem is that gcc doesn't _know_ where the code is going to end up.  The 
linker doesn't necessarily page-align all object files. 

p.