Re: How to recreate the 31 July color.com

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:11:41PM -0700, John Comeau wrote:
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> I ran byte-by-byte and assembler-line-by-assembler-line comparisons
> until I got everything but the actual numeric opcodes the same; GNU's
> "as" and MASM just choose different variants.

I'm very proud that my reverse engineering system doesn't
have that problem, but of course it is written in Forth.

It distinguishes between
  MOV, T| BX| R| AX'|
and
  MOV, F| AX| R| BX'|
(move register ax from bx, move register bx to ax)
which are actually different opcodes in Intel.

I used the same comparison technique as you.
If you imagine that you have multi megabyte executables, the opcode
problem could become unbearable.

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Groetjes Albert

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