GMECM Digest V1 #184

[Donald Whisnant]

> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:23:05 -0700
> From: "TK" <terryk at foothill.net>
> Subject: Re: M6811DIS Disassembler
> 
> What is the max length of a label title? On the older version it was 5
> characters or something like that. 8 would cover most GM pnuemonics.
> Otherwise things like KFABM2 and KFABM3 look the same in the disassembly.
> 
> Terry Kelley
> 

Terry...

This version (1.0) is actually the same as "the older version" the
difference is that I've completed the instruction manual for it.  The
label name length is still limited to 6 characters.  This is due to the
real-mode limit of the language used in which all variables must not
exceed one 64k boundary in the heap.

I am working on a DOS 32-bit version (1.2) that will soon be completed
and put online as well...  It will have no limit on label size or number
of labels...  This new one is almost complete except that I need to
change the opcode table which right now is a hash-table of arrays into a
hash-table of hash-tables to speed up disassembly with processors with
more opcodes (like the 6816 or 68332)...  This version 1.2 will use the
new GDC class (Generic Disassembly Class) that will allow the processor
dependent functions of the disassembler will be encapsulated in a DLL so
that users can create additional DLL's for other processors and put them
to use without rewriting or even recompiling the disassembler itself or
the front-end of the disassembler...

So hang tight for a bit until I can finalize this next version and get
it online...  Don't know exactly how long because at work, we are moving
from one office building to another one and things are total chaos -- no
one in the company planned ahead!! ...

Donald Whisnant
dewhisna at ix.netcom.com