• @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      A fancy way to say do nothing is not the same as translating back and forth. Example: Show me the intermediate translation.

      Also we live in a 64bit world now old man

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        010 months ago

        You’re right.

        xor rax, rax

      • @over_clox
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        010 months ago

        Also that instruction does not do nothing, it resets the CPU register to zero without having to access RAM. Far from a NOP instruction.