How are hex sequence translated to assembly without ambiguity?

Question

8B EC 56 8B F4 68 00 70 40 00 FF 15 BC 82 40   

A senquence like above can be segmented in various ways,each segment can be translated to correspon

Answer 1

It sounds like the answer to your question is the somewhat flippant "Know your starting point", but maybe you want something a little more verbose. Given your string:

8B EC 56 8B F4 68 00 70 40 00 FF 15 BC 82 40

AND a starting point (Let's say the 8B is your starting point) there is only one possible interpretation of the bytes.

So let's say one operation is 8B EC 56 8B (Depending on your operation length, etc), then the NEXT operation is F4 68... In this case, it's impossible for the machine to try to interpret an operation 56 8B F4 68 because no operation ended at just that point.

Now, if your start point was the 56, then you can get that group but cannot get either of the ones mentioned previously.

The layout of your memory is very specific and start points/jump points are exact and unforgiving--they are required as surely as the code itself.