I love finding a mysterious NOP in a released binary.
Someone patched this. Compilers don't usually just stick a NOP in the middle of a functional call.
Unless they're MIPS or similar, I guess, but there are very few MS-DOS games that run on MIPS processors
"how do I tell if I've inaccurately marked data as code?"
well, does it ever use the XLAT instruction? then yeah, it's wrong.
or AAS/DAA/AAD/DAS/AAM.
The chances that the code you're looking at legitimately uses BCD are approximately zero
I remember fravia describing being deep in a disassembly listing as being lost in the "code forest". That always stuck with me.
When I was debugging my emulator, it would often go off the rails, so I quickly got a feel for when the trees looked awfully weird.
Here we are again, back among the mutant trees...
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