What does lea 0x4(%esp),%ecx mean in at&t assembly?
What really is 0x4(%esp)?
What does lea 0x4(%esp),%ecx mean in at&t assembly? What really is 0x4(%esp) ?
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What does lea 0x4(%esp),%ecx mean in at&t assembly?
What really is 0x4(%esp)?
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%esp + 0x4.LEAstands for Load Effective Address. It’s, in this case, a simple addition, as shown above. Typically people and compilers don’t really use it anymore because CPUs now ship with a nifty address generation unit (otherwise called AGU), which lets you use all kinds of fancy arithmetics to compute addresses from registers and values. In short, whatever you did withlea, you can now embed it inside any other instruction.