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Some notes about Robert Bond's 'dis' program, Amiga version.
This is a quick & dirty port of a 6502 reverse assembler I that I had under
my hand for a long time. I didn't bother optimizing the stuff too much, I
just wanted to see it working. This is the sort of 'dirty' ports where you
first compiler the original file, then watch the compiler errors, and fix
the errors in the file, without looking anywhere else in it. Therefor:
1) 'dis' requires C:Sort ( too much bother to replace ) & C:Type ( I AM
lazy!!!)
2) I still don't understand why are the line numbers needed in the
c64.predef file. I don't have much UNIX experience, and no experience at
all with lex. lex code is like chinese to me, but reading the perdef
I think that the line numbers are ignored and are used only to easily
identify '.eq' lines.
3) The program is recursive, too much recursive! the trace routine calls
itself not only on branches, but every instruction! large stacks ( even
50K isn't too much for large programs ), are welcomed... I will modify
this as soon as I'll have time. it should be easy to remove recursion in
the non branch/jmp instructions. branches must have recursion.
I also enhanced the original package, and added support for c64 binary file,
which wasn't there before. ( It had only ATARI load/boot files ). The C64
file format was much simpler than those other 2 formats. To select C64 file
format, use the '-c' flag. I also included a c64.predefs file with some C64
constant addresses. Also, FYI, lex.c was generated on a SUN from lex.l and
then downloaded to the Amiga. lex.c was also __edited__ before compilation.
I know that it's a no-no to edit machine-generated files, but it was
necessary.
Udi Finkelstein
10 Glitzenstein st.
Tel Aviv 64686 Israel
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