"NOP sled" meaning in All languages combined

See NOP sled on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: NOP sleds [plural]
Etymology: See nop (“no operation”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} NOP sled (plural NOP sleds)
  1. (programming) 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. Categories (topical): Programming Synonyms: NOP slide

Inflected forms

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