I want to call a syscall in assembly. The problem is I can't mov ecx,rsp
. rsp
is 64-bit register, ecx
is a 32-bit register. I want to pass the buffer addr as a parameter of this syscall. What can I do? Thanks.
section .data
s0: db "Largest basic function number supported:%s\n",0
s0len: equ $-s0
section .text
global main
extern write
main:
sub rsp, 16
xor eax, eax
cpuid
mov [rsp], ebx
mov [rsp+4], edx
mov [rsp+8], ecx
mov [rsp+12], word 0x0
mov eax, 4
mov ebx, 1
mov ecx, rsp
mov edx, 4
int 80h
mov eax, 4
mov ebx, 1
mov ecx, s0
mov edx, s0len
int 80h
mov eax, 1
int 80h
To make a system call in 64-bit Linux, place the system call number in rax, and its arguments, in order, in rdi, rsi, rdx, r10, r8, and r9, then invoke syscall.
Note that 64-bit call numbers are different from 32-bit call numbers.
Here is an example in GAS syntax. NASM syntax for putting an address in a register is lea rsi, [rel message]
using a RIP-relative LEA.
.global _start
.text
_start:
# write(1, message, 13)
mov $1, %rax # system call 1 is write
mov $1, %rdi # file handle 1 is stdout
lea message(%rip), %rsi # address of string to output
mov $13, %rdx # number of bytes
syscall
# exit(0)
mov $60, %rax # system call 60 is exit
xor %rdi, %rdi # return code 0
syscall
.section .rodata # read-only data section
message:
.ascii "Hello, World\n"
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