\\ Code str = from the nfs dumps char str[]="\xff\x00\x0f\x88\xc6\x1b\x00\x00\x8b\x54\x24\x28\xbb\xc3\xff\xff\xff\x8b\x42\x40"; main() {} GNU gdb 6.0 Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) disassemble str Dump of assembler code for function str: 0x08049474 : incl (%eax) 0x08049476 : js 0x804b042 0x0804947c : mov 0x28(%esp,1),%edx 0x08049480 : mov $0xffffffc3,%ebx 0x08049485 : mov 0x40(%edx),%eax 0x08049488 : add %al,(%eax) 0x0804948a : add %al,(%eax) End of assembler dump. (gdb) exit