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Hi,

I'm writing a small application which reads and writes to some files. MY problem is that when I write to the file in my program, I get an error, %eax is set to -14. strerror(-14) returns unknown error, and I was told on irc that posix write() doesn't return -14. As far as I can tell everything is fine with the syscall, I've triple checked everything, but it keeps failing, nothing is written to the file.

asm Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. .equ SYS_WRITE, 4
  2. .equ ST_BR_WOUT_DESC, -8
  3. .equ LINUX_SYSCALL, 0x80
  4.  
  5. ...
  6.  
  7. #write 7 to file
  8.     movl $SYS_WRITE, %eax
  9.     movl ST_BR_WOUT_DESC(%ebp), %ebx
  10.     movl $7, %ecx
  11.     #convert to ascii
  12.     addl $48, %ecx
  13.     movl $1, %edx
  14.     int $LINUX_SYSCALL

Thanks in advance for any help
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Can you add more then that snippet. And add comments! That 80x86 assembler you're using is camouflaging the assembly code making it harder to read due to its abstraction methodology.
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Been doing some research. You're using a Linux assembler that uses the AT&T syntax?

It uses a reverse encoding and different operands.

You're passing the character and not the address of the character to the file I/O.

Assembly Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. .equ SYS_WRITE, 4
  2. .equ ST_BR_WOUT_DESC, -8
  3. .equ LINUX_SYSCALL, 0x80 ... 
  4.  
  5. tmp  .long 0
  6.  
  7.  
  8. #write 7 to file    
  9. 	movl $SYS_WRITE, %eax                # Linux SYSTEM - WRITE
  10.     movl ST_BR_WOUT_DESC(%ebp), %ebx     # Set ebx file Handle on stack?
  11.     movl $7, %edx                        # binary digit 7
  12.  
  13.  
  14. #convert to ascii
  15.     addl $48, %edx                       # char = '7' = '0'+7
  16.     movl $tmp, %ecx                # get memory address containing character
  17.     mov %ecx,(%edx)              # copy your character into it!
  18.  
  19.  
  20.     movl $1, %edx                        # write a single byte
  21.  
  22. # Sys_Write( uint ebx, const char *ecx, size_t edx )
  23. 	 ecx is suppose to be the pointer to the data, not the data itself!
  24.  
  25.     int $LINUX_SYSCALL

I've used a multitude of assemblers before but never LINUX.
This is untested so hope it works.
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yeah I'm using GAS, GNU assembler which uses AT&T syntax.

You're right, I'm passing the number instead of a pointer, man I've missed how useless the error messages are in assembly thanks a lot that fixed the problem.

Below is the updated code for clarity. I have a buffer, of size 1 byte, which I used earlier in the program to read in a number.

asm Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1.     #write 7(max) to file
  2.     movl $SYS_WRITE, %eax                           #put 4 in %eax, syscall code for write()
  3.     movl ST_BR_WOUT_DESC(%ebp), %ebx     #file descriptor for our file, saved to the stack earlier
  4.     movl $55, BUFFER                                    #put the ascii code for 7 into our buffer
  5.     movl $BUFFER, %ecx                                 #put a pointer to our buffer in ecx 
  6.     movl $BUFFER_SIZE, %edx                        #put the length of our Buffer in edx
  7.     int $LINUX_SYSCALL
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