Is there asm nop equivalent in java?

Question

When I program C/C++ with Visual Studio I often use __asm nop; command to insert a noop code in order to have something to break on. For instance:

Answer 1

In bytecode you have a nop instruction, but there's no nop statement in the Java language.

You can add an extra ; on a line by itself and the code will still compile, but that's not much more meaningful than adding an empty line.

Another "does nothing" statement could be:

assert true;

which has no side-effects what so ever, and can be turned off when executing the program.

As it turns out, assert true does not seem to generate any bytecode instructions, which causes break-points on assert true to be skipped all together. Eclipse is however able to break on a statement such as

assert Boolean.TRUE;

which is quite similar.