Timeline for IDA Pro: how to pass a function a pointer to a structure field
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 20:58 | history | edited | user2823000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 20:58 | comment | added | user2823000 | The whole principle of the CONTAINING_RECORD macro is to use negative offset to actually get a reference to the parent structure. See the link I just added to my answer for more details. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 14:37 | comment | added | Igor Lebedev | So, I can create a subtype and pass its pointer to the function. But in this case, I would need to do some tricks if the functions uses negative offsets. But is it possible to pass a structure field as a function argument? v2 must be declared as a pointer to the corresponding structure field how can this be achieved? | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 21:47 | history | answered | user2823000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |