Shellcode questions

Hi all,
I would have guessed that shellcode would look quite a bit different on different types of CPU's and OS's, but I just made shellcode in Mandrake 9.1 (Kernel 2.4 I think) and didn't expect it to look different than in RedHat 8, which was what I was using not too long ago. It did however look different. Some stuff looked the same, and it still worked, but the only things I can think of that might cause that are either a newer kernel, a newer version of gdb, or a newer compiler (since the CPU didn't change at all). Does that sound about right? Received on Thu Jun 5 13:47:36 2003