Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:01:39 +0100 From: Steve Roome <stephen_roome@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: function calls/rets in assembly Message-ID: <20010824010139.E365@dylan.home>
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Hi, I'm having some problems with (what ought to be) fairly
straightforward assembly, mainly I think, with how FreeBSD (4.3, but
does that matter ?) does function calls (which don't work for me!)
How exactly should functions work in assembly, afaict, the
following C :
void printasint(int p) { printf ("print this %d\n", (int)p);}
should become :
printasint:
## set up stack frame
## is this necessary, it was in the mailing lists ??
## popl %ebp
## mov %ebp, %edx
## okay, so these two lines shouldn't be necessary either
popl %eax
pushl %eax
## as they don't do anything (do they, am I missing something??)
pushl $.LC0
call printf
## but where do I figure out where to "ret" to ??
ret
.endofprintasint:
.size printasint,.endofprintasint - printasint
Unfortunately, my code dies horribly, with illegal insruction, or
somesuch, so I assume I'm returning to never never land, rather
than where I was called from (but I'm not really sure how function
calls are supposed to be handled, because the stuff that gcc -S
comes out with is mad.. e.g. my functions start
addl $12, %esp
subl $-8, %esp
Which if I change to :
addl $12, %esp
causes a segfault.. (is that obvious, it doesn't seem to be ?)
Last time I did any large amount of assembly it was on the ARM, 10
years ago, so please excuse my ignorance, I'm trying !!!
Tia,
Steve Roome
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