Cheat Engine

[justa_dude]

Hi folks,

I was wondering why the following auto-assembler snippet stores the address of title into the memory pointed at by the symbol instead of the string title. If I change the "db 'title',0" line to "db 'titl e',0" or any other misspelling, it works as expected. Does the assembler interpolate into strings? Are there other variables that can be inserted in this way, like in Perl or Ruby?

[Slugsnack]

I don't understand what you're trying to say. That code above defines a label 'title:'. You also register a symbol 'title' which is a pointer to an allocated block of 40 bytes. It just so happens at the label 'title:' you have defined a buffer with a zero terminated string called 'title'. You have 2 separate things there, do you realise that ?

[justa_dude]

Thanks for replying, Slug, but I don't understand what you're trying to explain.

Looking at the code, you would expect the memory pointed to by the title symbol to hold the string, "title", yes? When you execute the script, however, you're left with the ADDRESS of the allocated memory, instead. If you change the string to be, "this is a title string", you'll end up with a string in memory like, "this is a 123abc string" You see? That's what I mean by interpolation.

[Dark Byte]

this is a bug, it shouldn't replace the text in strings with the name of a symbol (which is a good reason to use longer symbolnames for better readability and prevent bugs like this from causing a problem)

[justa_dude]

Ah, I see. Sorry for posting in the wrong place, then. I thought it might be a feature! I can see how it would be useful to be able to automagically replace text with variables. Thanks for looking at it, and sorry for being unable to phrase my question more succinctly.

Cheers,
adude