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guy960915 · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: question about "ret"

what does this mean

ret - this is return right?

ret 4 - this is ????

ret 8 - this is ????

and what are the other combination/forms of this ret
a sample would be nice

Psy · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:58 am Post subject:

All you would need to know is after call'ing a function, is to use ret at the end of it to transfer program control back to the area where the call originated Smile

guy960915 · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:54 am Post subject:

what about the number next to it what does it mean?

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:54 am Post subject:

it means to take that number of bytes of the stack before returning.

e.g if the call was:
push #2000
push #1000
call routine

then it'd be ret 8 at the end to also remove those 2 pushes