How to get the address that one machine instruction write to?

Question

Now i have got a machine instruction'address from EIP register. This machine instruction could change the value of a certain area of memory, i do want but cannot get the address of this memory.

Of course,i could read the data from machine instruction'address, but the content is machine instruction like:0x8b0c4d8b......, it's unreadable(i can not use debugging tools like gdb).

How to get the address that one machine instruction will write to?

Answer 1

If you know the machine code EIP points to and you just want to disassemble it, do something like this (I took your example of 0x8b0c4d8b):

#create binary file
$ echo -en "\x8b\x0c\x4d\x8b" > foo.bin

#disassemble it
$ objdump -D -b binary -m i386 foo.bin 

foo.bin:     file format binary


Disassembly of section .data:

00000000 :
   0:   8b                      .byte 0x8b
   1:   0c 4d                   or     $0x4d,%al
   3:   8b                      .byte 0x8b

So, in this case, it doesn't change any memory location but if it did, you can easily see it from the assembly code.

Edit: It seems from the comments that you want to do this programmatically. Take a look at udis86. It allows examining operands of instructions. For ARM, see disarm.