Essentially this is a while loop with a nop in it

08048394 <main>:
 8048394:       8d 4c 24 04             lea    0x4(%esp),%ecx
 8048398:       83 e4 f0                and    $0xfffffff0,%esp
 804839b:       ff 71 fc                pushl  -0x4(%ecx)
 804839e:       55                      push   %ebp
 804839f:       89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
 80483a1:       51                      push   %ecx
 80483a2:       83 ec 10                sub    $0x10,%esp
 80483a5:       c7 45 f8 00 00 00 00    movl   $0x0,-0x8(%ebp)
 80483ac:       90                      nop    
 80483ad:       eb fd                   jmp    80483ac <main+0x18>
 80483af:       90                      nop