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Mastering Assembly Programming
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Mastering Assembly Programming

by Alexey Lyashko
September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
290 pages
6h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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GetPointers()

The GetPointers() procedure is the only one we make public, the only one that would be visible to a dynamic or static linker, depending on the selected output target. The logic behind this procedure is primitive. It creates a structure (in this example, the structure is statically allocated), filled with the addresses of core procedures, and returns the address of this structure:

GetPointers:   if (ACTIVE_TARGET = TARGET_W32_OBJ) |\      (ACTIVE_TARGET = TARGET_W32_DLL) |\      (ACTIVE_TARGET = TARGET_L32_O)      push dword pointers      pop eax      mov [eax], dword f_set_data_pointer      mov [eax + 4], dword f_set_data_length      mov [eax + 8], dword f_encrypt      mov [eax + 12], dword f_decrypt      ret   else if (ACTIVE_TARGET = TARGET_W64_OBJ) |\ (ACTIVE_TARGET = TARGET_W64_DLL) ...
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