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Chapter 34: Appendix: Cortex-M3 User Guide
2.10.8 NOP
No Operation.
2.10.8.1
Syntax
NOP{
cond
}
where:
cond
is an optional condition code, see
Section 34–2.3.7 “Conditional execution”
.
2.10.8.2
Operation
NOP
does nothing.
NOP
is not necessarily a time-consuming
NOP
. The processor might
remove it from the pipeline before it reaches the execution stage.
Use
NOP
for padding, for example to place the following instruction on a 64-bit boundary.
2.10.8.3
Condition flags
This instruction does not change the flags.
2.10.8.4
Examples
NOP
; No operation