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How can the following instructions make any sense?
xor eax,eax
mov eax,[eax]
When you XOR eax, you get zero most of the time, so can you dereference what is at address [eax] (in this case eax contains 0) and put it back into eax?
Where did this code come from? And what OS is it intended to run on?
I see two possibilities:
This code is supposed to generate an intentional segmentation fault.
The code is intended to run on a system where there is a valid page at address 0, and it’s trying to access whatever is there.