Question

I’m working with a binary file that I disas’d in gdb. Right now I’m just examining the return value of a function.

0x08048604 <playGame+78>: ret

Is the address shown the address where ret is stored in the function? Or is it just the address of the instruction to return the ret value?

Answer 1

It is the adress from .text section where the ret instruction is stored. You can add some local variables to your functions and print their addresses, which will be very different, since locals are stored on stack, and stack is usually far away from the actual executable code.