What's the point of LEA EAX, [EAX]?

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Published on 2010-04-24T05:55:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 6:03 UTC
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LEA EAX, [EAX]

I encountered this instruction in a binary compiled with the Microsoft C compiler. It clearly can't change the value of EAX. Then why is it there at all?

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