On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Richard Cornwell wrote: > Hi, > > I have to agree here, what exactly does this tool do? > > Writing a disassembler is not that hard. I have written several over > the years, one tried to decompile Fortran II for the I7090. Many will > do detection of code verse data and auto generation of labels. I then > use the output of these to generate some source file and assemble it > and use the tool on output and continue comparing until the assembled > binary matches the original binary. > > Rich
Ghidra is an extensible reverse engineering, disassembly, and decompilation framework. It is (unfortunately, IMHO) written in Java, which I suppose is good for me because I have (again, unfortunately) lots and lots and lots of professional experience with Java. I've already hacked on Ghidra a bit for my own projects, adding support for AT&T's odd 80186 COFF format. The tool is essentially an IDE for binaries. It knows all about most common library, object, and executable formats, and will disassemble and produce a very convenient graph of functions and calls, let you annotate and decompile bits of the assembly, and so on. I've only explored the top layer because I didn't need a tremendous number of advanced features for the project I was working on with it. It supports 16, 32, and 64 bit x86, ARM, Atmel, 6502, 68000, Z80, PowerPC, PA-RISC, SPARC, MIPS and a few others I think I'm forgetting. I think that's the main advantage: It's a Swiss Army knife for instruction sets and binary formats. -Seth -- Seth Morabito Poulsbo, WA w...@loomcom.com _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
