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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:03:04 -0600
From:      "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
To:        Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
Cc:        erich@lodgenet.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: as(1) patch & dis 
Message-ID:  <199602272103.PAA05508@jake.lodgenet.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:18:55 PST." <199602272018.MAA15332@kithrup.com> 

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> >Most of the code that you need has already been written, it's part
> >of gdb.  I've wanted to rip the disassembly stuff
> >out of gdb and make it stand alone
> 
> There is no need to do that; you can just use the binutils package, and
> objdump can disassemble ("objdump -d <file>").

cool, I'll have to look into it. thanks

> 
> >Actually, SCO's dis(CP) from 3.2v4.2 runs as well under ibcs2 as on
> >real SCO.  Most of the development system does, except for masm, and
> >some other programs that need (use) a vm86 call.
> >anyone know why SCO's syslog implementation needs vm86?
> 
> How... bizarre.  Are you sure it's not sysi86?

no, now that you mention it, I'm not sure.  In fact now that I look
at the man page, I'd bet money that its doing an `RTODC' to get the
time off the hardware clock.  Add that to the list of about 45 different
and incompatible ways to get time. ;-)

> 
> Sean.

eric.
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