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l : linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org 30 March 2007 • 10:29PM -0400

Re: Question regarding EIP instruction pointer
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leslie.polzer wrote:
>In order to execute the current instruction, the CPU must determine its
>format, which also means finding out how many bytes the command takes.
>
>Next command is at eip+sizeof(command).  Of course, this only holds for
>subsequent execution, branching is another thing.

Thanks for your insight. You mentioned the process is different for
branching.                     Is it possible to explain a little(I'm a bit
curious)?

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