From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-09-02, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 9/2/2025 6:07 AM, hb0815 wrote:   
   >>   
   >> 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 ...   
   >   
   > DEC did not provide a disassembler.   
   >   
      
   [snip]   
   >   
   > But Alpha is a different story.   
   >   
      
   What about srm_check ? It apparently has an undocumented disassembler   
   built into it.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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