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From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
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To: erich@lodgenet.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee
Subject: Re: as(1) patch & dis
Cc: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@FreeBSD.org
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>Most of the code that you need has already been written, it's part
>of gdb.  I've wanted to rip the disassembly stuff
>out of gdb and make it stand alone

There is no need to do that; you can just use the binutils package, and
objdump can disassemble ("objdump -d <file>").

>Actually, SCO's dis(CP) from 3.2v4.2 runs as well under ibcs2 as on
>real SCO.  Most of the development system does, except for masm, and
>some other programs that need (use) a vm86 call.
>anyone know why SCO's syslog implementation needs vm86?

How... bizarre.  Are you sure it's not sysi86?

Sean.