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From: andrew@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski)
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Subject: Re: Location of variables in executable files.
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Date: 13 Nov 90 14:47:21 GMT
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I was thinking (erroneously) that Getmpb would tell me where the program
being executed starts in memory, so that I can match the location of
the variable in the "self modifying" program and on the disk. Now that
I've learned more about the format of the executable files, I know better.
The suggestion I received was to look at the initialized data segment,
and look for my magic number. This sounds like it might work, but seems
like a bit of a hack.
I suppose there is no better way of doing it, so I'll try it the hack-way.

Thanks to all who responded to my query, I appreciate it very much.

-andrew krzywdzinski  (andrew@cs.utk.edu)