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|    wolfgang kern to William Gallant    |
|    Re: Easily convert 16bit asm to 32bit wi    |
|    05 Aug 20 12:46:34    |
      From: nowhere@nospicedham.never.at              On 05.08.2020 00:55, William Gallant wrote:              >> I have never found any 16bit to 32bit asm converters       >> ( always told there is none ). My theory is to take a       >> 16bit program and pass it through a modified DOS DEBUG       >> program such as Paul Vojta's DEBUGX.COM and spew       >> out 32bit. Does this seem possible?              > Since my first post, now there is GHIDRA, which can decompile a 16bit       executable, and with adjustments a 32/64 bit recompile could be made.              When x86-64 were available (many years ago) I got the idea to create       such conversion tools and started with a smart register value tracking       disassembler (still in use) to be part of a static code-analyzer.       It can disassemble all 16/32/64 bit code and detect mode switches too.              But it wont work within windoze nor Loonix, only within my own OS.              And the code analyzer worked only until all memory were occupied. so I       cancelled this whole project because it worked only up to 1MB and not       all conversion could be automated anyway.       Today memory is cheap and larger banks are available...       but I'm not sure to live long enough for a total restart makes sense.       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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