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On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 19:33 -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> I'm looking for a disassembler so that I can see the underlying |
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> assembly code in a variety of files, for example elf executables, DOS |
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> executables, binary files (such as the master boot record (MBR)), etc. |
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> What do you all recommend for disassemblers? Are there any good ones |
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> for Gentoo? |
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I've used objdump (part of binutils) in the past for looking at ELF |
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files; look at the -d option for disassembly. A quick test shows that it |
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seems to work for exe files too, but I've never used it that way as I |
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don't use Windows much, so I don't know for sure. |
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For the MBR, I don't know of any disassemblers per-se, but hex editors |
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work well depending on what you are doing. hexdump (part of |
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sys-apps/util-linux) works well. You might want to make an image of the |
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MBR first with dd, depending on which tool you use, as some do not |
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support reading from the disk directly. |
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Regards, |
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Brandon Vargo |
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