From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@theone.dnsalias.com>
Cc: "'Trenton D. Adams'" <tadams@extremeeng.com>,
'eCos Discussion' <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] objdump for binary file
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010821152957.A1338@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801c12a7c$99c8ceb0$090110ac@TRENT>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:05:18PM -0600, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> > > I compiled an eCos program and then copied it to a binary file.
> > > Is there a way of dumping the assembly now?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Run arm-elf-objdump --source on the ELF file.
> Ok, if the arm-elf tools can't do it, how would I do it?
It can be done by converting the file back into ELF format.
> I want to reverse engineer a driver for the PCMCIA controller
> I'm using. I think it's in plain binary form, but I'm not
> sure.
You've got an eCos program in binary-only and you need to
reverse-engineer it? Ouch.
Have you reverse-engineered machine-level stuff before? You
probably need to find a good interactive disassembler that lets
you annotate stuff as you figure it out. I don't know of any
for ARM.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-21 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-21 12:23 Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 12:33 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-21 13:02 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-21 13:07 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 13:08 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-08-21 13:20 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 13:22 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-21 13:27 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 13:32 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-21 14:02 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 13:05 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-21 13:28 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2001-08-27 8:02 Andre Asselin
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