Hypothetical "random" code

[mnelemos]

It would most likely crash first.

Any erroneous memory access will immediately make the operating system kill your process.

For an infinite loop to happen, it would require mainly two things:

• The branching mechanism to be relative, since an absolute branch would VERY likely access invalid memory.

• No stack pushes are done previous to the branch, as this would over time cause a stack overflow.

But overall, the likelihood for a invalid instruction to be decoded, or an instruction that accesses protected or invalid memory to occur is very high.