Re: Question regarding EIP instruction pointer

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leslie.polzer wrote:
> In order to execute the current instruction, the CPU must determine its
> format, which also means finding out how many bytes the command takes.
>
> Next command is at eip+sizeof(command).  Of course, this only holds for
> subsequent execution, branching is another thing.

Thanks for your insight. You mentioned the process is different for 
branching.                     Is it possible to explain a little(I'm a bit 
curious)?

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