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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nop sled

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables
nop sled
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc. to increase the chances of any random instruction access executing the sequence that follows.

Etymology

See nop (“no operation”).

Inflected Forms

NOP sleds (plural)

Synonyms

NOP slide

Questions

What does nop sled mean?
A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc. to increase the chances of any random instruction access executing the sequence that follows.
Where does nop sled come from?
See nop (“no operation”).

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