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From: Dragan Stancevic <visitor@xalien.org>
To: dAvId KeDrOsKy <davidkedrosky@rogers.com>,
	Linux Assembly Programming List <linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:19:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302271519.52122.visitor@xalien.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302271757.42990.davidkedrosky@rogers.com>

On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:57, dAvId KeDrOsKy wrote:
> The following program gives me a seg fault.  But I don't understand why.
>
> 1.	mov	ebx, dword 1234
> 2.	mov	ax, [ebx]
>
> To me the code would mean 1) move the integer 1234 into ebx and then 2)
> move the value of ebx into ax.  But of course my reasoning is incorrect.

You are trying to apply indirection to ebx, failing while trying to read from 
a memory location that is not accessible to your process.

Drop the brackets, and also you probably want eax, right?

-- 
Peace can only come as a natural consequence
of universal enlightenment. -Dr. Nikola Tesla

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-27 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-27 22:57 Newbie Question dAvId KeDrOsKy
2003-02-27 23:19 ` Dragan Stancevic [this message]
2003-02-27 23:26 ` Rudolf Marek
2003-02-27 23:42 ` Robert G. Plantz
2003-02-28  6:28   ` hpr
2003-02-28  0:27 ` Slack Traq
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-03 17:16 newbie question raphael
2005-09-03 17:36 ` jeff
2005-09-03 20:10   ` Martin Fflores
     [not found] <Pine.VMS.3.91-2(vms).1030228001923.25337A-100000@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
2003-02-28  0:45 ` Newbie Question Dragan Stancevic
2002-10-24 21:42 dAvId KeDrOsKy
2002-10-24 22:15 ` Rudolf Marek
2002-10-24 23:43 ` Brian Raiter
2002-10-25  3:07   ` Robin Miyagi

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