00000000 : 0: 55 push %ebp 1: 89 d1 mov %edx,%ecx 3: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp ... ... 6c: c3 ret 6d: 0f 0b ud2a 6f: 4d dec %ebp 70: 00 00 add %al,(%eax) 72: 00 00 add %al,(%eax) 74: 00 eb add %ch,%bl 76: b2 89 mov $0x89,%dl 78: f6 8d bc 27 00 00 (bad) 0x27bc(%ebp) ... What it's the meaning of bad (instruction)? gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i386-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)