On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:45:26PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : : : :Is there a trick to calling malloc from NASM code? It links fine and steps : :into malloc() fine, but returns a NULL pointer. : : Nope, should work just fine. The assembly should look something like : this (assuming we are talking about a userland program here): : : pushl $bytes_to_malloc : call malloc : addl $4,%esp : [ returns pointer in %eax ]
That's exactly what I thought. And it works fine with gas. But under NASM, I get a NULL pointer returned. It steps into malloc, but doesn't return a mem pointer. Jonathon McKitrick -- Hoppiness is a good beer.
