On: How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)

[account4mypc]

i think if you were writing such a program, this article would show that using such a number is a much more complicated idea than it sounds

[Out_of_Characte → account4mypc]

Enumerating all instructions would be usefull to check wether you can decode all legal instructions.

[saagarjha → Out_of_Characte]

The issue is that the list of all legal instructions is hard to define.