Timeline for Purpose of NOP instruction and align statement in x86 assembly
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | It's not exactly that the block needs to be aligned, it's that you don't want to have to fetch the last couple bytes of the previous block. So it's fine to jump to 0x1002, because there are still 14 bytes of instructions in the aligned block of 16B that contains the target address, but not fine to jump to 0x099D. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 4:48 | history | answered | permeakra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |