Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
by monocasa on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:58AM
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I don't think the instruction stream is self synchronizing; if you jump to the middle of an instruction there's no guarantee you'll ever get back to not parsing garbage.
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I didn't put that very well. I didn't mean it was self-synchronising when executing, but that you can (I think?!) always find the next instruction boundary by looking at the bottom bits. At least, that's my understanding from reading that part of the user spec.