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I am learning about windows x64 calling convention, where the first four arguments are passed to registers and left arguments are passed through the stack. To see it, I checked the assembly of the test file that I made. I understood the passing of first four arguments through the register, the left arguments were passed through the stack but I didn't understood the assembly of the instruction. It looked like this:

mov DWORD PTR 40[rsp], 6
mov DWORD PTR 32[rsp], 5

I don't know what does 40[rsp] means, maybe rsp+40 . If anyone knows, please explain to me

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  • What assembler are you using?
    – Igor Skochinsky
    Mar 25, 2021 at 8:33
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    gcc with tag -S
    – Mr. rc
    Mar 26, 2021 at 3:28

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Yes, mov DWORD PTR 40[rsp], 6 is the same as mov DWORD PTR [rsp + 40], 6. The first syntax makes a lot more sense in cases where the constant is the base address of an array, and the register contains a byte offset into that array. That's the use case the syntax was designed for.

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  • Thanks, now i understood!
    – Mr. rc
    Mar 28, 2021 at 6:37

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