Re: N00b questions :\

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 01:52, Diode Trnasistor wrote:
> Playing with these challenges (and thanx so much for
0xfffffffc should be interpreted using 2's complement. So this is actually a negative number (-4).

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> Moving on i write another sample program:
GCC sometimes allocates more memory for each variable on the stack than is actually requested. I have no idea exactly why and what is does -- but I assume it is some small optimization.

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> Moving on, i try to abuse the obvious strcpy in
You do actually overwrite the return address but the return address will only be jumped to by a call to return. exit does _not_ use the return address.

Hope this helps a little.

Janus N. Tøndering Received on Sat May 24 20:42:00 2003