I have a basic asm program that checks if a string is a digit. I was adding in code to read from command line arguements, put it keeps seg faulting.
if what I have read is right, this should get the amount of arguments passed to the program, which should be stored in 0(%ebp). What am i doing wrong?
The entirity of the code can be found here: http://pastebin.com/kGV2Mxx4
The problem is the first 3-5 lines of _start.
upon Looking at lscpu's output, I have an i868 cpu. Although, it says it can operate in 32-bit and 64-bit. I am running 32 bit linux (Arch linux x86)
I fixed the issue. I did 2 pop's, one to bypass the programs name, the next to get the first argument. the updated code can be found here: http://pastebin.com/xewyeHYf
Can someone please tell me why I could not just do the following:
pushl 8(%ebp)
or
movl 8(%ebp), %eax
You could write this:
_start:
b1: movl 0(%ebp), %eax
cmpl $1, %eax
je load_msg
b2: pushl 8(%ebp)
b4: call check
To understand why your previous attempts didn't work, draw stack diagrams.
Here is a little tutorial I wrote on the subject:
NASM - Linux Getting command line parameters
Compile a small C program that does something like what you want to do, and compile it to assembly language to find out exactly how to access arguments. The x86_32 code doesn't look at all like any of the above, BTW:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
return argv[1][0];
}
gives (yes, some is superfluous stack bookkeeping, but anyway):
.file "tst.c"
.text
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
pushl %ebp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 8
.cfi_offset 5, -8
movl %esp, %ebp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 5
movl 12(%ebp), %eax
addl $4, %eax
movl (%eax), %eax
movzbl (%eax), %eax
movsbl %al, %eax
popl %ebp
.cfi_restore 5
.cfi_def_cfa 4, 4
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
.size main, .-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8)"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits