Is EBP a protected register?

[CCurl]

Excellent info. So long I can be confident that EBP isn't going to change out from under me when calling routines, I'm good.

Thanks.

Just one moment. Are you putting anything into EBP and expecting it to be present when you return from a library routine? How do you preserve what is in EBP as you enter your function?

Dave.

Isn't protecting the registers the responsibility of the code being called, not the code making the call? The caller cannot depend on EAX, EDX, or ECX retaining their values, but the other registers are supposed to be restored to their original values upon return.

[jj2007]

Dave & CCurl,

Don't argue

Especially when you essentially agree:
yes you can change ebp (but caution with the locals),
yes you have to restore it before the ret.