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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 101

Memory Editing Functions

I'm looking for functions to write and read process memory similar to the Win32API calls in windows.h but I can't seem to find any for standard C++ and I would like it to be platform independent.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (4)

Jonathan Grynspan
Jonathan Grynspan

Reputation: 43472

Which functions are you using on Windows? We're not sure what it is you're asking for, but if you show us what you're doing successfully there, we'll be able to help you find the equivalents on other platforms.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Smith
Michael Smith

Reputation: 411

The C++ standard supports memcpy(), memset(), memmove(), and memcmp(). There is also and STL utility, std::copy(). These are all platform independent.

Upvotes: 0

Necrolis
Necrolis

Reputation: 26171

You can get platform independent because those kinds of API calls are dependent on the OS kernel, you'd need to create wrappers for each type(read, write) and change the internal API call based on a PP define (such as _WIN32)

Upvotes: 0

bdonlan
bdonlan

Reputation: 231163

There is no standard C++ API for accessing the memory of other processes. Standard C++ does not even have the concept of a 'process' at all. Moreover, the contents of the memory of other processes is highly platform-dependent, so adding a shim layer for porting to other OSes is the least of your problems.

Upvotes: 6

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