Whoops... Yeah, you're right. You wouldn't expect to see instructions like bne, bge, etc. that depend on key material directly, so you wouldn't be able to rely

Whoops... Yeah, you're right. You wouldn't expect to see instructions like bne, bge, etc. that depend on key material directly, so you wouldn't be able to rely the instruction pointer alone. Instead, you might see instructions like addlt, so you'd also need to inspect the value before and after, which, as you correctly state, the debugger will happily let you do.