Today I learned that x86 has a floating point version of the `nop` instruction, called `fnop`. It does nothing, but unlike the regular `nop` it uses the floating point unit to do nothing.
Today I learned that x86 has a floating point version of the `nop` instruction, called `fnop`. It does nothing, but unlike the regular `nop` it uses the floating point unit to do nothing.
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