#156 ndisasm: detect ASCII strings or blank data areas

The disassembler should be able to detect and process ASCII strings (detect multiple ASCII7 characters in a row) and blank areas (like those generated by times 255 db 0 etc.)

That would make disassembly a lot easier. Although encoding your strings as mnemonics is really sneaky :P

[nasm64developer]

The disassembler could certainly detect sequences
of bytes that only use the lower 7 bits, or null
byte sequences; however, it wouldn't know when it
should interpret them as code, and when as data.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't be that hard to determine whether it's code or data, just look in the range of printable characters, I guess.

[nasm64developer]

Instead of guessing, you might want to actually take
a look at the x86 one-byte opcode range, to see how
it collides with the "range of printable characters".