NOP machine instruction

| Cracking | (gdb) disass Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x0000000000400494 : push %rbp 0x0000000000400495 : mov %rsp,%rbp 0x0000000000400498 : nop => 0x0000000000400499 : jmp 0x400498 End of assembler dump. (gdb) #include<stdio.h> main () { while (1) asm(“nop”); } NOPs are often involved when cracking software that checks for serial numbers, specific hardware …