[Bastard-libdisasm] libdisasm .20.x

[Michael M. <ma...@ho...>]

OK, This should be the first message of the ML.

Last week I mucked about with CVS and broke libdisasm off into its own 
module;
it can now be checked out by doing

cvs -dus...@cv...:/cvsroot/bastard co libdisasm

The bastard has been put into its own module; maintenance of 0.17 will most 
likely die off, and development will commence with 2.0 in the bastard2 
module next year.

Currently I am working on SSE2 disassembly in libdisasm; it is mostly done, 
with the tedious task of fillinf the SSE2 opcode tables remaining. Once that 
is finished, I will have to add XML and 'raw' formats to the "at&t, intel, 
native" asm formatting that libdisasm does.

An addition to libdisasm is the x86dis command-line utility. This is 
half-written; when complete, it will allow arbitrary addresses in a file to 
be disassembled. Typical unix convention will apply; you will be able to do 
a
   cat /bin/ls | x86dis -s intel -e 0x8040100 | grep call
and it will work as expected.

At some point I plan on writing Perl and Python wrappers for libdisasm, if 
no-one beats me to it. Other languages such as Tcl, Java, Ruby, Ocaml, etc I 
am not particularly interested in.


The SSE2 support and the x86dis utility will result in libdisasm 0.21.0; 
Perl and Python modules will probably appear in 0.22.0.

_m

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