[Coco] disassembling

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:52 PM 1/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
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>>Is there much disassembling going on today?  I've had a request or two 
>>for adding a disassembler mode to Portal-9.  It sounds interesting enough 
>>that we could take one of the many CoCo .rom files or .bin files and turn 
>>them back into source code that is ready to be reassembled.
>>If I add this mode, it would work by taking a preloaded binary file and 
>>then converting it into another edit window as CCASM source code.  I 
>>think a panel of switches should be available so the user can quickly 
>>toggle some modes, change a few params, then do it again until the source 
>>code is workable, cutting down on how much manual editing will be 
>>required, if any.
>>Any suggestions?
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>>Roger Taylor
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>Use the CerComp Source III as a model. This disassembler has a fast mode 
>which works like the EDTASM debug, but it also has a full mode which saves 
>the created source to disk as an .asm file.
>
>The best thing about this program is that the user can enter addresses for 
>blocks of fcb, fcc, and skip. The full mode will then take the byte table 
>into account during disassembly. The byte table can be saved to disk so 
>that multi-session disassemblies are possible.
>
>The program has ascii and hex dump window to facilitate creating the above 
>byte table.

What is the format for this byte table?  This might help me to understand 
whether they are creating a list of addresses to stay out of, or perhaps a 
64k image that marks addresses that contain data instead of instructions.



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Roger Taylor