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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NOP
Message-ID: <248@csccat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 09:05:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: csccat.248
Posted: Fri Sep 25 09:05:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:55:16 EDT
References: <2306@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Carrollton,Texas.
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Keywords: NOP

In article <2306@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, cjdb@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
> 
> 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?


MASM places NOPs in certian places to align some instructions on WORD 
boundarys or pad EVEN directives.
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