Repetition of REP Instructions That Don’t Repeat Anything (xlogicx.net) 28 points by ingve 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] yyin 10y ago ↗ Why was the Consistent Instruction Sizes entry not posted but this one was? This entry appears to be yet another way to achieve it.Maybe I am wrong, but if all instruction sizes were the same I could imagine disassembling by simply parsing hexdumps of binaries.
[–] EscapeFromMars 10y ago ↗ Reminds me of GCC emit rep ret to work around AMD bug in branch predication.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 17.6 ms ] threadMaybe I am wrong, but if all instruction sizes were the same I could imagine disassembling by simply parsing hexdumps of binaries.