[ECOS] [Fwd: AW: [ECOS] disassemble binary arm-code]

[ECOS] [Fwd: AW: [ECOS] disassemble binary arm-code]

[Jonathan Larmour]

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To : "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
Subject : AW: [ECOS] disassemble binary arm-code
From : Edelmann Thomas <Thomas dot Edelmann at nbgm dot siemens dot de>
Date : Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:00:57 +0200

yes, it's really a pure binary. ;-)

how should this work? the binary has no symbolinformation.

arm-elf-objcopy tells me "File Format not recognized"

bye,
Thomas


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jonathan Larmour [ mailto:jlarmour@redhat.com ]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2001 15:51
> An: Andrew Lunn
> Cc: Edelmann Thomas; 'ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Betreff: Re: [ECOS] disassemble binary arm-code
> 
> 
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:22:04AM +0200, Edelmann Thomas wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have an arm code binary file. (208 bytes)
> > >
> > > Is it possible to disassemble the file??? How???
> > 
> > arm-elf-objdump --disassemble-all myfile
> > 
> > This assumes its an elf file produced by gcc. I think the 
> compile ARM
> > sell use some other format.
> 
> Indeed. If it really is a pure binary file, you could use 
> arm-elf-objcopy
> to convert it to an ELF file. Can't remember the exact 
> options off-hand,
> but it's trivial to look up.
> 
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Re: [ECOS] [Fwd: AW: [ECOS] disassemble binary arm-code]

[Andrew Lunn]

> how should this work? the binary has no symbolinformation.

Why does it need symbol information? The CPU does not need any to
decode the assembly language!
 
> arm-elf-objcopy tells me "File Format not recognized"

Try the -I option. RTFM.

        Andrew