Thread: Locating ebp?

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    Locating ebp?

    I'm writing a program that involves traversing the stack, and I need to find out how to locate the current base pointer without information about the current function. I know there is a way to do it with just regular C code (as opposed to inline assembly, etc.).

    I know that there are some things that have a fixed location from the current ebp, such as function arguments or where the return address is stored, so if I knew the address of these, I could find ebp, but I have no idea how to access these addresses. Does anyone have insight or suggestions?

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    I'm writing a program that involves traversing the stack, and I need to find out how to locate the current base pointer without information about the current function. I know there is a way to do it with just regular C code (as opposed to inline assembly, etc.).
    Not too sure on what you are trying to achieve here, but registers, including ebp, will be changing all the time... Anyway, directly accessing registers will require you to use inline assembly. You could do something along the lines of take a pointer to your first function argument, which should give you somewhat direct access to the stack frame of the current function.

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    I know that there are some things that have a fixed location from the current ebp, such as function arguments or where the return address is stored, so if I knew the address of these, I could find ebp, but I have no idea how to access these addresses. Does anyone have insight or suggestions?
    This is only true if ebp is set up as a frame pointer, which is not guaranteed, e.g. when passing the -fomit-frame-pointer flag to gcc.
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    I would be doing this once when the program stops. How could I take a pointer to the first function argument if I don't know the function I'm in?

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    What so you mean, when the program stops? When the program ends, there is no code left to execute.
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