Re: Let me know EIP address

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

linux-os wrote:
> 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.

Or use a gcc extension, so that you don't have to write assembly code:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   address:
     printf("this is my address %p\n", &&address);
   return 0;
}

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