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From:	Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject:	Re: Assembler question
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> At 03:03  10/6/1997 GMT, Marsel wrote:
> >Hi,
> > Can I get the address of the program counter in a C program ?
> I don't think there's a good way to do it directly from C, but you can do it
> with external assembler, I.E. NASM.

Easy to do with inline assembler:

 int pc;

 asm( "movl %%eip, %0"; "=q" (pc) );

(Untested, but I don't think that it violates any protection.)

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto

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