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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:04:05 -0700
From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
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Subject: Re: x86 Disassembler
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> Are there any tools to disassemble an x86 binary file? objdump does a nice 
> job on most files. However, I'm messing with some machine-code binary files 
> that don't have ELF headers or anything other then the machine-code (ie 
> MBR's). I'd like to disassemble them on FreeBSD, possibly to a format that 
> G(as) could reassemble. Then I don't have to use something like debug.exe. 

One kludge that may work is to use objcopy --add-section to insert
the machine code into an ELF file.