Sekirov Dictionary

nop

UK /nɒp/US /nɔp/

noun 1
verb 1
forms 6

noun1

•
A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
- The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing. — 1999

verb1

•
To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
- For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out. — 1992

forms

NOPed · nopped · NOPing · nopping · NOPs · nops

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