From: mw40171@mucweb.de   
      
   On 9/2/25 00:52, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 9/1/2025 3:59 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >> On Alpha:   
   >>   
   >> ANALYZ A01-07   
   >>   
   >> ***  This file is not an ELF object file   
   >>   
   >> I guess that by VSI policy Alpha is not recent enough.  OTOH   
   >> cc/list/machine_code works on Alpha...   
   >   
   > Itanium and x86-64 use ELF format.   
   >   
   > VAX and Alpha use the VMS custom "double var" format. But   
   > slightly different some definitions are xxx$ on VAX and   
   > Exxx$ on Alpha.   
      
   This indicates, that for (VAX and) Alpha nobody saw the need for a   
   disassembler (integrated into ANALYZE).   
      
   I don't know if there are (freeware) tools that can disassemble such   
   object files. (A quick search didn't find any. I'm sure ChatGPT can   
   write one if you ask it!) It shouldn't be so hard (for VSI) to write   
   such a tool. The debugger and SDA can disassemble: it's just a matter of   
   knowing the API and calling the corresponding code (which as far as I   
   can see is not exposed in a shareable image). But I doubt that anyone at   
   VSI wants to spend the time to create such a tool for Alpha.   
      
   If you really need to see the machine code that is in an object file,   
   for which you don't have the source code ...   
      
   In an own program, you can read the code psect(s) of the object   
   module(s) into memory and start the debugger (remember the ZAP tool?) to   
   disassemble it   
      
   There is also SRM_CHECK. It can disassemble code sections in Alpha   
   images. But that was not the main purpose of this tool. So I don't know   
   how good the disassembly output really is. However it's available as   
   freeware and the ZIP archive contains the source code.   
      
   And yes, ANALYZE/DISASSEMBLE (/OBJECT is default) is only for ELF   
   (Executable and Linkable Format) objects. There was obviously a need for   
   this and adding a disassembler to a tool that already knew the format of   
   the object module was the preferred solution.   
      
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