Doubt debugging a program

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Doubt debugging a program

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I was debugging a program and I came up with the following question, had architecture is 32 Bits Intel and had the following instruction MOV EAX, DWORD PTR SS[0X401049], and below that instruction had the following command MOV EDX, DWORD PTR SS[0X40104A]. My doubt is that in the first instruction the EAX record received 4 byte of data , and in the second only one byte of data.

Why of this being that each memory address on a 32-bit architecture has 32 bits.

Would not have to transfer 4 bytes also to the second instruction?

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– Maniero

2015/10/12 at 17:44
From what I can see moved 2x 4 bytes. DWORD is 4 bytes I can’t see the problem.

– krystalgamer

2015/10/12 at 20:18
You’re one short ; on line 42 ... or why C?

– pmg

2015/10/13 at 10:21

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by Filipe Herculano Rocha • 26 points · Answer 1 · 2015-10-14T17:50:24+00:00

It doesn’t necessarily have to be 4 bytes. For example, when we are working with several types sizes we can use either 4 bytes or 8 bytes or 2 bytes. It doesn’t matter what size because the computer architecture corrects this failure by jumping to the next value after the word.

For example, if you use a char, it will be occupying only 256 bits of the word, which refers to 2 8. We know that if the architecture of a computer is 32bits then each word will have 2 32, but it is not a determining factor. Each type has a certain size in the architecture, independent of it.

Take a look at climits and look at what I’m talking about, there you find all the bit limits of the C types. It will be evident that it is not always necessary to occupy the 4 bytes of a word!