What's an AoB (Array of Bytes)

I have encountered this term a couple of times now, and I have googled for explanations, but couldn't find any.

I'm accessing the memory of a running software-game. I do 开发者_高级运维have an address but I'm also given an AoB, for example

89 8B ? ? 00 00 8B 50 ? 89 93 ? ?.

What do I do with it? I'd appreciate it if you could give me a guide or something.

Thanks

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An array of bytes is best explained in C/++ as an array of [unsigned] char. The values you see are only hexadecimal representations of these bytes or unsigned char's.

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An array of bytes is a contiguous series of values, usually in the range 0 to 255 (0x00 to 0xFF).

The contents must be interpreted by the programmer and can be anything from addresses to pixels for a bitmap.

A common use of AoB, a.k.a. buffer, is for I/O, reading and writing data. The fundamental I/O routines do not care about content, just quantity, source and destination. A program may read large amounts of data into an AOB, then later cast it as some kind of structure or assign fields with data from the buffer. See also "serialization." This is a performance technique with I/O: convert many small reads into one large block read.

Not all data has to be in structures or objects; those are just a convenience.