Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:03:20 +0100 (MET) | From | Szakacsits Szabolcs <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) |
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Horst von Brand wrote:
> It is _hard_ to do with variable length instructions (CISC, remember?), the > code is designed to be easily decoded forward, noone executes code going > backwards.
Of course, it's a bad approach. You start earlier and stop at EIP. Repeat this for max(instruction length) different offsets and you will have the winner. Figure it out from the context after EIP.
> When I needed to look at the code in an Oops I'd either objdump(1)ed it or > compiled the offending stuff to assembler (possibly with custom CFLAGS to > get info on line numbers and such in the output).
I was talking about cases when you can't do these.
Szaka
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