On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 19:33 -0500, David Relson wrote: > I'm looking for a disassembler so that I can see the underlying > assembly code in a variety of files, for example elf executables, DOS > executables, binary files (such as the master boot record (MBR)), etc. [snip] > What do you all recommend for disassemblers? Are there any good ones > for Gentoo?
I've used objdump (part of binutils) in the past for looking at ELF files; look at the -d option for disassembly. A quick test shows that it seems to work for exe files too, but I've never used it that way as I don't use Windows much, so I don't know for sure. For the MBR, I don't know of any disassemblers per-se, but hex editors work well depending on what you are doing. hexdump (part of sys-apps/util-linux) works well. You might want to make an image of the MBR first with dd, depending on which tool you use, as some do not support reading from the disk directly. Regards, Brandon Vargo
