Re: The offset is so large

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From: Evenbit
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:44

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cmk...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>    This is the disassemble from my c++ object file,
>
>         char tempBuffer[0x20];
> tempBuffer[0]=0x12;
>     70e8:       c6 45 b8 12             movb   $0x12,0xffffffb8(%ebp)
> tempBuffer[0x10]=0x34;
>     70ec:       c6 45 c8 34             movb   $0x34,0xffffffc8(%ebp)
>
> Why the offset is 0xffffffb8? it is so large
>
> thanks
> from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

Those are negative numbers.  They are in two's compliment form.  Some
suggested reading:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/DataRepresentationa5.html#999509

Nathan.

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