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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   
      
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