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Quick question about the dollar sign

 
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:09 pm    Post subject: Quick question about the dollar sign Reply with quote
In the case of this script what does the dollar signs ($) mean when we put them before "process", ""addressOfCopy" etc. How does the Cheat Engine auto assembler interpret this and what is the difference if i were to use them without the dollar sign ?

Code:
{$lua}
if addressOfCopy==nil then
   addressOfCopy=copyMemory(getAddress(process),getModuleSize(process))
end
{$asm}


alloc(newmem3,2048,"gtutorial-x86_64.exe"+38E8F)
alloc(addressThatHoldsTheModuleBase,8,"gtutorial-x86_64.exe"+38E8F)
alloc(addressThatHoldsTheModuleEnd,8,"gtutorial-x86_64.exe"+38E8F)
alloc(addressThatHoldsTheCopyBase,8,"gtutorial-x86_64.exe"+38E8F)


addressThatHoldsTheModuleBase:
dq $process

addressThatHoldsTheModuleEnd:
dq $process+getModuleSize(process)

addressThatHoldsTheCopyBase:
dq $addressOfCopy
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the $ sign means that the symbol should be looked up in the lua global variable list

process gets set to the first modulename when you open process and in this specific script addressOfCopy gets set at the start
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