Re: Let me know EIP address

[linux-os]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Lethalman wrote:

> I'm trying to get the EIP value from a simple program in C but i don't how to 
> do it. I need it to know the current address position on the code segment.
>
> main() {
>  long *eip;
>  asm("mov %%eip,%0" : "=g"(eip));
>  printf("%p\n", eip);
> }
>
> Unfortunately EIP is not that kind of register :P
> Does anyone know how to get EIP?

You get the offset of a label, i.e., "foo:\t movl $foo,%0\n" in the asm 
code.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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