I am in the process of porting an application from x86 to x64. I am using Visual Studio 2009; most of the code is C++ and some portions are plain C. The __asm keyword is not supported when compiling towards x64 and our application contains a few portions of inline assembler. I did not write this code so I don't know exactly what et is supposed to do:
int CallStackSize() {
DWORD Frame;
PDWORD pFrame;
__asm
{
mov EAX, EBP
mov Frame, EAX
}
pFrame = (PDWORD)Frame;
/*... do stuff with pFrame here*/
}
EBP is the base pointer to the stack of the current function. Is there some way to obtain the stack pointer without using inline asm? I have been looking at the intrinsics that Microsoft offers as a substitute for inline asm but I could not find anything that gave me something usefull. Any ideas?
Andreas asked what stuff is done with pFrame. Here is the complete function:
int CallStackSize(DWORD frameEBP = 0)
{
DWORD pc;
int tmpint = 0;
DWORD Frame;
PDWORD pFrame, pPrevFrame;
if(!frameEBP) // No frame supplied. Use current.
{
__asm
{
mov EAX, EBP
mov Frame, EAX
}
}
else Frame = frameEBP;
pFrame = (PDWORD)Frame;
do
{
pc = pFrame[1];
pPrevFrame = pFrame;
pFrame = (PDWORD)pFrame[0]; // precede to next higher frame on stack
if ((DWORD)pFrame & 3) // Frame pointer must be aligned on a DWORD boundary. Bail if not so.
break;
if (pFrame <= pPrevFrame)
break;
// Can two DWORDs be read from the supposed frame address?
if(IsBadWritePtr(pFrame, sizeof(PVOID)*2))
break;
tmpint++;
} while (true);
return tmpint;
}
The variable pc is not used. It looks like this function walks down the stack until it fails. It assumes that it can't read outside the applicat