From: "Andre Asselin" <asselin@us.ibm.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] objdump for binary file
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF230C3442.E5D6DBCF-ON85256AB5.0051EC6D@raleigh.ibm.com> (raw)
>----- Message from Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> on Tue, 21 Aug 2001
15:30:05 -0500 -----
>>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.
The best interactive disassembler I've found is IDA Pro (see
http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/ida.htm ). At $300 for the standard
version, which includes ARM and many other processor architectures, its a
bargain. I've used it on 386, 6800, and 68000 code, and its been
fantastic.
Andre Asselin
IBM ServeRAID Software Development
Research Triangle Park, NC
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-27 8:02 Andre Asselin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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