nop

Operands

No operation : Does nothing; the processor simply advances to the next instruction. Machine code is all zeroes. Useful as a placeholder or delay-slot filler.

Variants

  • No operation : Does nothing; the processor simply advances to the next instruction. Machine code is all zeroes. Useful as a placeholder or delay-slot filler. nop
# nop leaves the initialized marker unchanged. Inspect $t0: 7.
li $t0, 7
nop