Nop

Full definition of nop

Noun

1. (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
• 1999, Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS RunThe 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 InterfaceNotice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.

Verb

1. (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
• 1992, The Cyborg, The Cracking ManualFor example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.

Anagrams

• NPO, 'pon, pon