Unknown 8085 opcodes
Sean Conner
spc at conman.org
Thu Jan 12 13:21:20 CST 2017
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
> On 01/12/2017 07:35 AM, Mouse wrote:
>
> >> Does your disassembler do flow analysis?
> >
> > I doubt it, because none of the meanings I know for the term are
> > anything my disassembler does.
>
> A disassembler that can do flow analysis is a breath of fresh air when
> working with larger binaries. Essentially, it looks at the code and
> makes some decisions about its content.
>
> Thus, a target of an already-disassembled jump must also be code, not
> data, for example, so it's possible to disassemble large sections of
> code automatically. Sections not referenced as code or data are held as
> "unknown" code until some guidance from the user is provided.
But are there disassemblers that can handle somehing like:
jsr puts
fcc 'Hello, world!',13,0
clra
...
puts puls x
puts1 lda ,x+
beq puts9
jsr putchar
bra puts1
puts9 pshs x
rts
I recall that being a somewhat common idiom in 8-bit code of the 80s.
-spc
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