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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, md@doc.ic.ac.uk, dwj@kenyan.doc.ic.ac.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters?
Message-ID:  <199504181956.MAA04476@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504181925.MAA13570@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 18, 95 12:25:48 pm

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> > I'm working on a programmable disassembler (TclDisass :-)
> 
> Well I have a really good test case for you then!!!  For those who
> don't know, server.exe is the guts of a Novell file server.  It is
> close to what a kernel is to Unix.  
> 
> The problem is with a program this size you need something higher
> level than assembler output, and the disassmebler must understand
> some of the more complex things that can be done (static jump tables are
> easy to handle, but dynamic ones confuse the h*ll out of every one
> I have ever tried :-().

Which is why it is programmable.  That way you can tell it about all 
the weird high-level data-structures...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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