Yes, that's correct. WebAssembly is a Harvard architecture
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture>, so there is no
program counter. In Emscripten there are APIs to parse the WebAssembly
binary and compute fake PC values as offsets into the binary, but I do not
recommend using them for anything. They are very low-level and heavyweight.
They were essentially added as a hack to make AddressSanitizer error
reporting work correctly.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:55 AM yowl yowlxx <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, I dont need to read it, and the virtual memory addresses are what
> I want.  Are you saying there is no equivalent of a program counter?
>
> On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 12:33:21 PM UTC-5, Thomas Lively wrote:
>>
>> WebAssembly's code does not live in linear memory, so instructions and
>> functions do not have addresses at all. You could make up some numbers to
>> make your code work, but you will never be able to read the code out of
>> memory.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:24 AM yowl yowlxx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm porting some code to wasm, and wondered if there was anything
>>> equivalent to
>>>
>>> extern char __managedcode_a __asm("section$start$__TEXT$__managedcode");
>>> extern char __managedcode_z __asm("section$end$__TEXT$__managedcode")
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> This is getting the start and end of code section in memory, so I guess
>>> the start will always be 0, but the end?  I could do 0xffffffff which might
>>> be ok for my purposes, but is there anything like the actual end of the
>>> wasm code?
>>>
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