CODEWITHSUNDEEP
gdbstackreturn-valuedisassembly
GetOffMyLawn
GetOffMyLawn

Reputation: 1442

GDB disas question about address values

I'm working with a binary file that I disas'd in gdb. Right now I'm just examining the return value of a function.

0x08048604 <playGame+78>: ret

Is the address shown the address where ret is stored in the function? Or is it just the address of the instruction to return the ret value?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 286

Answers (1)

Daniel Băluţă
Daniel Băluţă

Reputation: 1275

It is the adress from .text section where the ret instruction is stored. You can add some local variables to your functions and print their addresses, which will be very different, since locals are stored on stack, and stack is usually far away from the actual executable code.

Upvotes: 2

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