On 04/13/2012 03:58 PM, Amir Ghanbari wrote: > Ok, let me get this straight. I'm not sure how the binary files are > structured. Shouldn't the address of each instruction be in the binary > file? No, it's a continuous stream of bytes. Instruction boundaries are not marked. > if I have something like: >>>> 401ba0 : f0 0f lock mov (bad),%db1" >>>> 401ba2 : 23 48 89 and -0x77(%rax),%ecx" > is it the same as: >>>> 401ba0 : f0 0f 23 lock (bad) >>>> 401ba3 : 48 89 > aren't those two forms different(they're gonna have different addresses)? No, they're the same. > I want GCC to discriminate between these two forms and do it like the > latter (if those two are different in a binary sense). It can't. Andrew.
