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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:16:04 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: as(1) patch & dis
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227141356.2801A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199602271145.QAA07983@hq.icb.chel.su>

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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Serge A. Babkin wrote:

> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Indeed it was written to decode FreeBSD code :-) but it decodes BSDi
> (at least 1.1) code wery well too. May be it will be able to decode
> the Linux code too (with some changes?). SCO drivers can be easily disassembled
> by dis under SCO. Really, dis is braindamaged and I use dumps of
> symbol and relocation tables (dis from SCO5 is even more braindamaged,
> it disassembles some jump addresses wrong). My dis386 for FreeBSD analyses 
> them automatically. So may be some day I would write a COFF version of it.
>

Sad... 
Where will I get the SCO from...  
So I wont see what the drivers do to write my own ones...

> -SB
> 



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