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How to get the size of an assembly instruction with C ++

 
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:08 pm    Post subject: How to get the size of an assembly instruction with C ++ Reply with quote

Does anyone know any function to get the size of an assembly instruction?
Let's assume that address 07310000, contains the following instruction: mov eax, edi.
This instruction is formed by 2 bytes (8B, C7).
I would need to get the size of the instruction that is in a given address.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

celua.txt:
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getInstructionSize(address): Returns the size of an instruction (basically it disassembles the instruction and returns the number of bytes for you)


Edit: didn't see C++, but you can still look at CE's source and see what it's doing.

Writing this on your own isn't terribly hard. Look at Intel's software developer's manual volume 2A chapter 2 "Instruction Format" for most of the information you'll need.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

C++ doesn't have the capabilities.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

write a basic disassembler that just gets the instruction size (prefixes, multibyte opcodes, modrm, sib, ...)
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
write a basic disassembler that just gets the instruction size (prefixes, multibyte opcodes, modrm, sib, ...)

So there are no ready-made libraries that can do this?
CE disassembly, you should either create it from the beginning, or some library aided in it.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Filipe_Br wrote:
So there are no ready-made libraries that can do this?
of course there are, just google disassembly library. Of course you'd probably learn more and it may be smaller than a full disassembly library to create your own if all you need to do is determine the size (disclaimer: I don't know how the disassembly works, it may be very dependent on the data requiring nearly a full disassembly to determine the size, for CISC architectures anyhow, but maybe it doesn't)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are a handful of disassembler libraries available to do this.

- ADE32/64
- HDE32/64
- LDE32/64
- BeaEngine
- Capstone
- Distorm
- Zyan Disassembler Engine
- etc.

Or pulling out Cheat Engines engine and using it in an external dll would work too.

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