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Rabbit Threads: Making Threads Jump

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Compel threads to execute out of context code using inline assembly.
// Worker Thread
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "WorkerThread.h"

DWORD WINAPI ThreadProc( LPVOID lpParameter )
{
    HANDLE hWorkerThread = NULL;    // Mirroring Stack Structure
    DWORD dwProcessID = 0;          //   of the code which 
    DWORD dwPrimaryThreadID = 0;    //   executes main()
    DWORD dwWorkerThreadID = 0;     //
    DWORD dwCurrentThreadID = 0;    //
    DWORD dwLandingArea = NULL;     //

    // The only variables of interest
    //   for this thread
    DWORD dwExitAddress = NULL;

    dwWorkerThreadID = GetCurrentThreadId();

    // Sleep to allow syncronization for the Debugger
    //  Not required in Real Life...
    Sleep( 1000 * 10 );

    if( NULL == lpParameter )
    {
        return -2;
    }

    dwExitAddress = * ( reinterpret_cast< DWORD* > ( lpParameter ) );

    __asm {

        push RETURNAREA
        push dwExitAddress

        ret
    }

RETURNAREA:
    std::tcout << _T("Exiting worker function thread ID = 0x");
    HEXADECIMAL_OUTPUT(4);
    std::tcout << dwCurrentThreadID << std::endl;

    return 2;
}

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