NOP (code)
Machine instruction that indicates to a computer to do nothing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the "No Operation" computer instruction. For Null statement, see Null function. For Do nothing instruction, see Do Nothing (disambiguation). For other uses, see NOOP (disambiguation) and NOP (disambiguation).
In computer science, a NOP, no-op, or NOOP (pronounced "no op"; short for no operation) is a machine language instruction and its assembly language mnemonic, programming language statement, or computer protocol command that does nothing.