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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:15:07 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: as(1) patch & dis
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227091140.2001A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199602261321.SAA10862@hq.icb.chel.su>

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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Serge A. Babkin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have found a bug in the assembler. It does not understand the
> following construction:
> 
> _x:	.long	1
> _y:	.long	2
> 	mov	%eax,(_y-_x)(%ebx)
> 	   	      ^^^^^^^^
> 
> (differences as displacements)
> 
> I needed this for my experiments with kernel startup time BIOS calls. I
> have fixed this bug. Commit it please if you find this patch enough good.
> 
> BTW, for fixing this bug :-) I have written a 386 disassembler. It's alpha
> quality yet but already useful. I think any people who wants to
> reengineer some "object-only" BSDi code will find it useful too. So
> how about to commit it ?

Will it decode only BSDi code? Can it be used to watch the code companies 
sell on their driver diskettes for SCO?
 
> 
> Thanks!


	Sander



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