nop

See also: Nop

English

Etymology 1

Noun

nop (plural nops)

  1. (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
    • 1999, Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run
      The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
    • 2004, Patterson et al, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
      Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.

Verb

nop (third-person singular simple present nops, present participle nopping, simple past and past participle nopped)

  1. (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
    • 1992, The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual
      For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.
    • 2012, Michael W. Berry, ‎Kyle A. Gallivan, ‎Efstratios Gallopoulos, High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications
      Worse, some patching can result in codes which cannot be executed: for example nopping the load which provides the value for the denominator of a division can result in a division by zero.

Etymology 2

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, rare) Alternative form of nope

Anagrams

Italian

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

Seri

Noun

nop (plural nopxam)

  1. bobcat, Lynx rufus

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnop/

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope
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