A while ago someone asked how to encode/execute x86 machine code, I replied with a small tutorial on the subject, which I thought I should expand and share here
X86 instructions can range from 1 byte to 15 bytes long, an example for 1 byte instruction is the NOP (no operation instruction 10010000b or 0x90h), in general/from a bird's eye view x86 instructions format looks like this:byte: 0,1,2,3 4,5 6 7 ...
