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I see OBJCONV updated. But what's new?

Compared TFM: added support for Knights Rider 512-bit instructions

Are there other differences? I'll compare the source too ...

Problems / wishlist:

- Fix disassembly (got crashes in the past, not sure whether they persist in latest version)

- Progress indicator for disassembly and document "worse than quadratic" (or make it faster) (we had discussed this some time ago)

- Disassemble DGJPP COFF (in my last test with raw COFF I got the code section "nonexecutable" and 1'000'000'000'000 DB's, not a single instruction, if the COFF has MZ stub, it says "16-bit DOS executable, can't disassemble")

- Disassemble raw (and DOS MZ) 16-bit and 32-bit (you already can disassemble PE and (sometimes) localize "local functions" ... there will be no exports and imports in raw)

- Add support for disassembly hint file (telling the disassembler what is code and what not, where to sync, ...) (TFM says that OBJCONV is NOT interactive ...)

- "-ffasm"

I see OBJCONV updated. But what's new?

The slow disassembly of big files is due to an ordered list of symbols. It needs to be replaced by a binary tree. I would rather improve the speed than making a progress meter. Also, I would rather improve the ability to detect what is code and what is data than adding a complicated interactive feature for letting the user do this.

Support for disassembling 16-bit DOS executables is problematic because the code often contains calculated segment addresses, functions implemented as interrupts with parameters mixed into the code and other difficulties. A disassembler needs to be aware of such compiler specific oddities. I suggest that you find an old DOS disassembler.

thanks for the answer ... I see that 2.19 is out :-) why not reveal the version number (besides date, bloat, and maybe MD5 or SHA256) on the download page ?

www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv

One more issue: in my DLL it doesn't find any exports or imports:

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I'm NOT asking for some horrible interactivity (get IDA PROOOO), but for some simple hint file like

1000 c 100B d 1011 cf 1055 d 1070 n 1400 c

"100B" RVA in hex
"c" code
"d" data
"cf" code and function begin
"n" nothing (skip from disassembling)

what about "-ffasm" ?