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		zozbot234 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why xor eax, eax? > "if". Where the condition is a predicate for the following instruction This is just a forward skip, which is optimized to a predicated insn already in some implementations.

phkahler 13 days ago [–]

>> > "if". Where the condition is a predicate for the following instruction

>> This is just a forward skip, which is optimized to a predicated insn already in some implementations.

True, but make it a 16bit prefix and apply to all (or selected) instructions.

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