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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right.

xor rax, rax

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GF2P8AFFINEINVQB xmm1, xmm2, 10

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.