ocalbox root $ cat a.s .global _start _start: subl %eax,%eax incb %al int $0x80 localbox root $ cat a.c char sc[] = // <_start> "\x29\xc0" // sub %eax,%eax "\xfe\xc0" // inc %al "\xcd\x80" // int $0x80 ; int main() { void (*fp)(void) = (void (*)(void))sc; printf("Length: %d\n",strlen(sc)); fp(); } localbox root $ strace ./a execve("./a", ["./a"], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="localbox", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=87989, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 87989, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f00000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20O\1\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1441261, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7eff000 mmap2(NULL, 1240284, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7dd0000 mmap2(0xb7ef9000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x128) = 0xb7ef9000 mmap2(0xb7efd000, 7388, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7efd000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7dcf000 mprotect(0xb7ef9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7dcf6c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xb7f00000, 87989) = 0 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0700, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f15000 write(1, "Length: 6\n", 10Length: 6 ) = 10 _exit(-1209028612) = ?