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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: NOP
Message-ID: <2306@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 21:28:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2306
Posted: Thu Sep 24 21:28:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 14:25:49 EDT
Organization: The University of Chicago
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Keywords: NOP


In debugging code written in assembly-language, I notice that MASM
periodically inserts NOP's in places where they don't appear in the
source. I imagine this is done to slow down the processor, but how
does MASM "decide" the appropriate circumstances?

Thanks in advance.



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