Re: determining return address of a function

From: "Madhav" <madhav.kelkar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Dec 2005 02:01:59 -0800

Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:

> The assembly code of the call of test1() may possibly contain some register
> shuffling and stack operations after the call. The return address is the
> address of the first assembly instruction after the call.
>
Thanks Enrique for the explaination. Now I know that exactly.

But I wonder, what are the possible uses of knowing the return
address? knowing the frame address of a function makes sense, because
you can view the values of local variables within that function . But
somehow I cannot understand the use of return address.

Regards,
Madhav.

.

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