NOP

No Operation does nothing, other than advance the value of the program counter by 4. This instruction can be used for instruction alignment purposes.

The timing effects of including a NOP instruction in a program are not guaranteed. It can increase execution time, leave it unchanged, or even reduce it. Therefore, NOP instructions are not suitable for timing loops.

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11010101000000110010000000011111
CRmop2

System

NOP

// Empty.

Operation

// do nothing

Operational information

If PSTATE.DIT is 1:


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