The same assembly code but different result on cygwin and Centos

Václav Haisman v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz
Tue Apr 26 13:02:00 GMT 2011


matthew chao wrote, On 26.4.2011 4:52:
> The code below assigns an integer number 20 to %ebx,  which  can be
> CORRECTLY assembled on both cygwin and CentOS,
> 
> ###code begin###
> .section .data
> items:
> .long  20
> 
> .section .text
> .globl _start
> _start:
>   movl $0,%edi
>   movl items(,%edi,4),%eax
>   movl %eax,%ebx
> 
>   movl $1,%eax
>   int $0x80
>[...]
Cygwin is Linux emulation DLL, it runs on top of Win32 API. It does not
emulate Linux' syscalls; it cannot emulate that.

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