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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Robust 80x86 dis-assembler.
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Date: 20 Apr 91 12:41:02 GMT
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jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:


>	I'm looking for suggestions of where to find a good dis-assembler
>for the 80x86 under MS-DOS.  Ideally it would handle instruction sets
>from 8086 to 80486, as well as the corresponding FPU instructions.  It
>also should be able to emit MASM source.  I have tried the following
>implementations: ASMGEN, ID12, MD86, and SNOOP.  SNOOP was the only version
>that I found to be even close to working.  The others imposed limits on
>.EXE size, or assumed that the whole disassembly would fit in RAM, etc.
>SNOOP V1.01 looks like it handles most programs ok, but suffers some brain
>death when building a symbol table.....it creates symbol references that
>don't get defined.

I think SOURCER is the trick here.  It's not shareware ($150 from V
Communications; I can't remember offhand how much I paid for it from
Programmer's Paradise) but it is very good.  I had looked at several
PD/shareware disassemblers before taking the plunge with SR and I was
not at all impressed with any of them.
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