Introduction to C

C will be your bread and butter for developing your attacks. Yes, there are easier, more modern, less cumbersome languages, but the following is true:

• The abstraction level prevents you from understanding what is happening on the hardware.
• Most of your reversing targets will be C-based.

So, pony up, and learn the language that makes the hardware run!

This is really intended as a crash course that will just allow you to understand the code that comes with this book. There are plenty of resources on C on the internet if you want to dig deeper (and trust me, you will want to).

Operators

C comes with most of the operators you are expecting:

You may already be familiar with the majority of the statements:

The comments can come in two forms:

Numeral bases as literals are also very straightforward:

Types

Variables have a type. This is...