From: antispam@fricas.org   
      
   hb0815  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   objdump can disassemble, just use 'objdump -d' (or 'objdump -D' is you   
   expect code in nominally non-code sections).  Works for me   
   with Alpha VMS .obj files (and executables).  My main use is to check   
   potentially confusing assembler mnemonics (which encoding is used   
   by the assembler).   
      
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