I need to develope some algorithms that are really easy to do with a hig level language as C or C++, but become really hard to write directly as NASM istructions.
Since basically a C and C++ compiler have to use low level istructions to produce binaries, is there a simple way to obtain the NASM code from C\C++ programs.
From man gcc
:
-S
Stop after the stage of compilation proper; do not assemble. The output is in the form of an assembler code file for each non-assembler input file specified.
By default, the assembler file name for a source file is made by replacing the suffix .c, .i, etc., with .s.
gcc -S hello.c
should create file hello.s
with corresponding assembler code.
Works for g++
too.
Other compilers probably have similar option.
For example, for this program (hello.c
):
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, world! %d\n", 6*7);
return 0;
}
The output (hello.s
) contains this:
.file "hello.c"
.section .rodata
.LC0:
.string "Hello, world! %d\n"
.text
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
pushq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
.cfi_offset 6, -16
movq %rsp, %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 6
movl $42, %esi
movl $.LC0, %edi
movl $0, %eax
call printf
movl $0, %eax
popq %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
.size main, .-main
.ident "GCC: (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits