NASM Assembly, Ubuntu, 32-bit program.
Normally, when popping a value from the stack, I'll do
POP somewhere
Into a register or a variable. But sometimes, I simply don't want to put it anywhere - I just want to get rid of the next element in the stack. Doing
POP
Just like that won't work.
A workaround I had was to make a 4-byte variable I don't use at all and dump the POP into it. Is there a better way to achieve this?
Adjust the stack pointer by four bytes (or some other amount), ignoring whatever value was on top:
add esp, 4