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pedro santos
pedro santos

Reputation: 339

Meaning of the address printed

This is a simple question I have regarding gdb debugger, when I use the command " i r $rbp" the address that is printed is the actual address of rbp or just an address the points to rbp's address? thank you

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Employed Russian
Employed Russian

Reputation: 213375

is the actual adress of rbp or just an adress the points to rbp's adress

You are confused: registers do not have addresses, only names.

When you do info register $rbp, you get the value stored in the register. That value may be interpreted as an integer, or an address, or a float. It's just bits.

Upvotes: 3

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