I see, thanks for the link!

On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 2:01:01 PM UTC-5, Thomas Lively wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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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