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I got a simple procedure to get the instruction pointer value

unsigned long long getRIP(){
unsigned long long l1=0LL;
asm("movq %%rip, %0":"=r"(l1));
return l1;
//return -1ULL;
}

gcc gives me the error message

testRIP.c: Assembler messages:
testRIP.c:5: Error: operand type mismatch for `movq'

my thought is that rip is s 64 bit value... define unsigned long long should be a 64 bit value...
so where ishte operand type mismatch from?

Hi,



The "MOV" instruction only works with general purpose registers, and RIP isn't considered a general purpose register. To do what you want you'd need to use RIP relative addressing and LEA.

I don't know what the syntax is for AT&T/GAS, but maybe something like "lea $0(%%rip), %0" might work.


Cheers,

Brendan

I'm intrigued as to why you want to find the value of the instruction pointer within the subroutine. I can see why you might want the value at the point that the routine is called but not why you want the value within a utility routine.

I was reading Tannenbaum's OS book, in which he mentioned that p-thead and MACH os's C thread... both package does user space threading... I was thinking ... how do you transfer control among those user level threads.... do you have any scheduling mechanism among the thread groups that share the same process?
Also I am wondering if user level thread aforementioned is related to co-routines in Go?