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Mino

Joined: 14 Jan 2018
Posts: 163

Mino 09 May 2018, 22:02

Good morning,
I'm looking for a way to end the program without using

Code:

 invoke ExitProcess, 0

And without any libraries, but what I could find on the Internet was talking about DOS instruction (and I would like it to work on Windows first, as well as on a UNIX/Linux system).

Here is an example of a code that does not close after execution:

Code:

format PE
entry main

section '.code' code executable
main:
        push ebp
        mov ebp, esp
        mov DWORD [ebp-4], edi
        mov DWORD [ebp-16], esi
        mov DWORD eax, 21
        sub eax, 7
        mov edi, eax
        call square
        mov esp, ebp
        pop ebp

square:
        push ebp
        mov ebp, esp
        mov DWORD [ebp-4], edi ; n -> DWORD (4 bits)
        ; ...
        pop ebp
        ret

(by the way, this is the code that my compiler generates for the moment, what could I improve in it?)

There is also always on Windows the shield icon for the administrator mode:

Some ideas Very Happy

?

Thank you very much in advance.

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09 May 2018, 22:02

Furs

Joined: 04 Mar 2016
Posts: 2493

Furs 09 May 2018, 23:40

Wikipedia has some examples for Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_%28system_call%29

There is no stable way to do it in Windows, because the system calls vary between Windows versions. That's why Microsoft want you to use their libraries (e.g. kernel32.dll) since those are stable.

I guess you could just:

Code:

ret

EDIT: Because the wiki example for 32-bit Linux is in GAS, here's translation to FASM:

Code:

_start:
  mov eax, 1  ; System call number 1: exit()
  mov ebx, 0  ; Exits with exit status 0
  int 0x80    ; Passes control to interrupt vector
              ; invokes system call—in this case system call
              ; number 1 with argument 0

Their 64-bit example is in FASM:

Code:

format ELF64 executable 3

entry start

segment readable executable

start:
  ; STUFF
  ; exiting
  mov eax, 60  ; sys_exit syscall number: 60
  xor edi, edi ; set exit status to 0 (`xor edi, edi` is equal to `mov edi, 0` )
  syscall      ; call it

09 May 2018, 23:40

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