On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:32:44PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
insn_get_addr_ref returns the effective address as defined by the
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section 3.7.5.1 Vol 1 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual. In order to compute the linear address, we must add to the effective address the segment base address as set in the segment descriptor. Furthermore, the segment descriptor to use depends on the register that is used as the base of the effective address. The effective base address varies depending on whether the operand is a register or a memory address and on whether a SiB byte is used.
In most cases, the segment base address will be 0 if the USER_DS/USER32_DS segment is used or if segmentation is not used. However, the base address is not necessarily zero if a user programs defines its own segments. This is possible by using a local descriptor table.
Since the effective address is a signed quantity, the unsigned segment base address saved in a separate variable and added to the final effective
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address.