Disassembling mostly-unknown data

[Chris Boot]

David Daney wrote:
> David Daney wrote:
> 
>> Chris Boot wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm having difficulty getting my head around the documentation 
>>> regarding a particular special case I'm facing: I have a binary 
>>> firmware image that I need to disassemble portions of. I know the CPU 
>>> architecture (it's a MIPS) and ISA and all, but the binary image 
>>> isn't in any format that binutils recognises, or that I even know (so 
>>> I can't just add the binary format to bfd).
>>>
>>> Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is have output similar to 
>>> 'hexdump -C <file>', but with an added column containing the 
>>> instruction that may (or may not) be at that particular address. 
>>> Fortunately for me MIPS has a fixed instruction size of 32 bits 
>>> although I suspect I may have to play with MIPS-16 at some point 
>>> (thus, 16-bit instructions).
>>>
>>> Would anyone be able to provide me with guidance pulling off such a 
>>> tool?
>>>
>> Something like mipsel-linux-objdump -D --target=binary 
>> --architecture=mips
>>
>>
> Sorry I meant to send to the list as well.  So I am resending.
> 
> David Daney.

*smacks head hard against a wall repeatedly*

Thank you.

Now, can I get some ASCII text as well? I'd rather not be misled into 
believing something is an instruction when it's actually text... Maybe I 
should write a PERL script to do this. :-/

Thanks again,
Chris

PS: I really should pay more attention, I did the same and didn't post 
to the list.

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