Re: NOP instruction question.

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Hi,

noops with the registers contents, rather i think it is false
considering bus operations in it.

Am i rt/wg?

Iqbal


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:19, Bryan K. wrote:
> In intel documentation I 've seen that the instruction nop is an alias for 
> xchg %eax, %eax which is implicitly a LOCK instruction. This means that if 
> one cpu does nops the others cannot access the bus? Have I missed something?
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