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assembly - What is the x86 "ret" instruction equivalent to?

Say I'm writing a routine in x86 assembly, like, "add" which adds two numbers passed as arguments.

For the most part this is a very simple method:

push ebp
mov ebp, esp
mov eax, [ebp+8]
add eax, [ebp+12]
mov esp, ebp
pop ebp
ret

But, is there any way I could rewrite this method to avoid the use of the "ret" instruction and still have it produce the exact same result?

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Sure.

push ebp
mov ebp, esp
mov eax, [ebp+8]
add eax, [ebp+12]
mov esp, ebp
pop ebp

pop ecx  ; these two instructions simulate "ret"
jmp ecx

This assumes you have a free register (e.g, ecx). Writing an equivalent that uses "no registers" is possible (after all the x86 is a Turing machine) but is likely to include a lot of convoluted register and stack shuffling.

Most current OSes offer thread-specific storage accessible by one of the segment registers. You could then simulate "ret" this way, safely:

 pop   gs:preallocated_tls_slot  ; pick one
 jmp   gs:preallocated_tls_slot

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