I want to make something like a small hex editor for my project.
so i wrote a function like this(to replace the original code with the new code):
int replace(FILE *binaryFile, long offset, unsigned char *replaced, int length) {
if (binaryFile != NULL) {
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
fseek(binaryFile, offset + i, SEEK_SET);
fwrite(&replaced[i], sizeof(replaced), 1, binaryFile);
}
fclose(binaryFile);
return 1;
} else return -1;
}
So I wrote this code to test the function and sent it to address 0x0:
unsigned char code[] = "\x1E\xFF\x2F\xE1";
and i got this hexadecimal result:
1e ff 2f e1 00 10 2b 35 ff fe 07 00
But I don't need data after E1 (00 10 2b 35 ff fe 07 00)
How can I write the function so that only the data sent to the function is stored?
sizeof(replaced)
is wrong. replaced
is a unsigned char *
, so that's not the size you want.
You probably want sizeof(unsigned char)
or sizeof(*replaced)
.
Currently, you end up writing eight times too much.
Note that you could also write in a single step:
if (binaryFile != NULL)
{
fseek(binaryFile, offset, SEEK_SET);
fwrite(replaced, sizeof(unsigned char), length, binaryFile);
}