ipc6.s

        ; compile this like:
        ; nasm -f elf64 decode-test.s
default rel
BITS 64

GLOBAL _start
_start:
        ; iteration count, doesn't really matter much for the purposes of this test
        mov rsi, 1_000_000

        xor eax, eax
ALIGN 32
        ; uncomment the nop below to misalign all the blocks by 1 byte
        ; nop

top:

        ; change the number below to affect the total size of the loop
%rep 50
        test eax, eax
        jne .dummy
        test eax, eax
        jne .dummy
        xor ebx, ebx
        xor ecx, ecx
%endrep


        dec esi
        jnz top

.end:
        xor edi, edi
        mov eax, 231    ; exit(0)
        syscall


.dummy:
        ud2