gcc compile binary has following assembly:
8049264: 8d 44 24 3e lea 0x3e(%esp),%eax
8049268: 89 c2 mov %eax,%edx
804926a: bb ff 00 00 00 mov $0xff,%ebx
804926f: b8 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%eax
8049274: 89 d1 mov %edx,%ecx
8049276: 83 e1 02 and $0x2,%ecx
8049279: 85 c9 test %ecx,%ecx
804927b: 74 09 je 0x8049286
At first glance, I had no idea what it is doing at all. My best guess is some sort of memory alignment and clearing up local variable (because rep stos is filling 0 at local variable location). If you take a look at first few lines, load address into eax and move to ecx and test if it is even address or not, but I'm lost why this is happening. I want to know what exactly happen in here.