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What is the difference between the two Instruction pointers (eip)? What is the goal of each one?

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There are two different eip?

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saved eip is the address that your frame will return to (i.e. on i*86 it's the address of the next instruction after the CALL).

eip is the current instruction pointer, i.e. the address of instruction that is going to be executed next (once control returns to this frame).

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