GDB disas question about address values

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Published on 2010-05-05T08:05:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 8:08 UTC
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I'm working with a binary file that I disas'd in gdb. Right now I'm just examining the return value of a function.

0x08048604 <playGame+78>: ret

Is the address shown the address where ret is stored in the function? Or is it just the address of the instruction to return the ret value?

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