NASM: copying a pointer from a register to a buffer in .data

I am new to asm. I am trying to copy a pointer from a register to a .data variable using NASM, on linux 64-bit.

Concider this program:

    section .data
ptr: dq 0

    section .text
    global _start

_start:
    mov [ptr], rsp

    mov rax, 60
    mov rdi, 0
    syscall

Here I try to copy the current stack pointer to ptr. ptr is declared as a quadword. Neither nasm nor the linker complains, but when debugging the program with gdb, I can see that both addresses are different:

gdb ./test.s
+(gdb) break _start
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4000b0
+(gdb) run
Starting program: test
Breakpoint 1, 0x00000000004000b0 in _start ()
+(gdb) nexti
0x00000000004000b8 in _start ()
+(gdb) info registers
...
rsp            0x7fffffffe460   0x7fffffffe460
...
+(gdb) x ptr
0xffffffffffffe460: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffe460

From what I understand, mov should copy all 64 bits from rsp to [ptr], but it seems that the most significant 0s are not copied and/or that there is some kind of sign extension, as if only the least significant bits were copied.

Best How To :

The problem is, you don't have debug info for the ptr type, so gdb treats it as integer. You can examine its real contents using:

(gdb) x/a &ptr
0x600124 <ptr>: 0x7fffffffe950
(gdb) p/a $rsp
$3 = 0x7fffffffe950

Of course I have a different value for rsp than you, but you can see that ptr and rsp match.

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