lea eax,[esi-buffer]

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comrade

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comrade

Code:

lea eax,[esi-buffer]

Cannot compile that line... MASM can.

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24 Jun 2003, 02:58

BiDark

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BiDark

I guess relocation cause Rolling Eyes

(It's not absolute value, buffer address can be change everytime you load?)

Just a guess Rolling Eyes

24 Jun 2003, 06:47

roticv

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roticv

Code:

lea eax,[esi-buffer]

Weird, what are you doing actaully?

24 Jun 2003, 07:43

BiDark

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BiDark

Try my quick fix,

Code:


  imagebase = 400000h
  lea  eax,[esi-rva buffer or imagebase]

Will be its absolute value.

24 Jun 2003, 08:05

scientica
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scientica

comrade wrote:

Code:

lea eax,[esi-buffer]

What is buffer? Is it a local, a global variable?

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24 Jun 2003, 11:56

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar

It will work for you in binary mode, but not in PE/COFF/ELF output modes, because addresses there are relocatable.

24 Jun 2003, 13:15

JohnFound

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JohnFound

Hi, Privalov.

Is it imposible to make lea instruction with relocateable operand, like:

jmp buffer

or

mov eax, buffer

Actually loader simply adds some constants to some memory locations. Hm, or my question is stupid? Very Happy

24 Jun 2003, 14:34

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar

Yes, you can use lea instruction with such operand, but the problem was with substracting relocatable constant to some absolute value instead of adding it, and such type of fixups is not available in PE/COFF formats.

02 Jul 2003, 12:04

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar

If you are sure you won't need relocation info for your program, you can override this problem this way:

Code:

BASE_ADDRESS = 400000h

format PE at BASE_ADDRESS
entry start

section '.bss' readable writeable

  buffer = BASE_ADDRESS + RVA $
  rb 100h

section '.code' code readable executable

start:
        lea     eax,[esi-buffer]
        ret

02 Jul 2003, 12:12

Tomasz Grysztar

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Tomasz Grysztar

I've just realized it can be done much better, only few definitions at the beginning of source and then everything in normal way (assuming you won't include the relocation info):

Code:

BASE_ADDRESS = 400000h

format PE at BASE_ADDRESS
entry start-BASE_ADDRESS+$-RVA $

macro section params
 { section params
   org BASE_ADDRESS + RVA $ }


section '.bss' readable writeable

  buffer rb 100h

section '.code' code readable executable

start:
        lea     eax,[esi-buffer]
        ret

10 Jul 2003, 08:57

comrade

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comrade

Cool, thanks!

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10 Jul 2003, 12:27

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