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Declaring Pointers for Different Addressing Types

Explore how to declare and use pointers for various addressing types in x64 Linux assembly. Understand how pointers relate to memory sizes like byte, word, and doubleword, and how to debug pointer operations with GDB. Learn the significance of instruction suffixes and register roles in pointer management.

Pointers revisited

The pointer is a memory cell or a register that contains the address of another memory cell. Memory pointers have their own addresses because they are memory cells too. In 3232-bit Linux, pointers are 3232-bit, and in 6464-bit Linux, pointers are 64 ...