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Dedicated to documentation readers!!!
This manual documents how to install, setup and use BIEW. Also it
contains history of the program with the list of fixed bugs in each
release.
Table of Contents
=================
0.- Preamble
1.- BIEW history
2.- Installation and setup
2.1.- Under DOS, OS2, Win32 following files are needed
2.2.- For *NIX systems
2.3.- For all systems
3.- Program startup
4.- Short keyboard guide
4.1.- Basic keys
4.2.- SHIFT - common utilities and setup
4.3.- ALT - key binding to NEW-exe
4.4.- CTRL - key binding to view mode
4.5.- Functional keys, that are not displayed in prompt string
5.- CodeGuider
6.- Invisible features ( dark secrets )
7.- Undocumented features
8.- Program versions.
9.- History
9.1.- Old history
9.2.- New history
0.- Preamble
============
BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with
built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes.
It contains a highlight PentiumIV/K7-Athlon/Cyrix-M2 disassembler,
full preview of MZ, NE, PE, LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch,
coff32, PharLap, rdoff executable formats, a code guider, and lot of
other features, making it invaluable for examining binary code.
DOS, Win32, OS/2, Linux, BeOS, QNX, Unix versions are available.
1.- BIEW history
================
Why did I write BIEW? As for me, I was always looking for some
powerful viewer of binary files. All viewers that I had in 1995 year
did not satisfy me. Neither famous HIEW, neither QVIEW or something
else did not contain more than 50% of needed features.
And so, tired to wait when their authors would write a viewer,
which can display any information without any problem about any
executable file, I wrote BIEW. Though it looks like those viewers
that I've already had (of course: I borrowed some ideas), but I think
that it's easier and more modeless, besides I tried to make easy
access to different information stored in file. Nowdays, BIEW
conjoins PIII disassembler, TDUMP ( without possibility of viewing
.obj as OMF ), EXEHDR, DUMPEXE, NewExe Disasm, and also quite good
text viewer with Russian codepage converter, and so on.
However I do not want to compete with any other authors. More
over, I'm thankful to them, their programs pushed me on this heroic
step - to carry out my own ideas. Basically, I wrote BIEW for myself
and my friends, and if somebody else appreciates it - good luck.
2.- Installation and setup
==========================
Today BIEW is ported under several operating systems. For each
operating system there are own nuances of adjusting the program. If
your operating system does not support security or if you always work
as a Administrator, then the placing of files on the disk is a matter
of your taste. Otherwise you can place program in your personal
subfolder (where You have write access). As a rule, you can place all
files of distribution in the same subfolder.
2.1.- Under DOS, OS2, Win32 following files are needed:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
biew.exe - executable module ;-)
biew.ini - file of initializing and keeping variables between sessions.
(is created automatically at first launch).
biew.hlp - a file containing help system. BIEW will search these files
in startup folder.
standard.skn- a file containing color skin. BIEW will search these files
in startup folder.
2.2.- For *NIX systems:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
biew - executable module ;-)
.biewrc - file of initializing and keeping variables between sessions.
(is created automatically at first launch).
BIEW will search for (or try to create) it in the home
directory; if attempt will fail, then in /tmp, if you don't
have access rights to /tmp, then BIEW will work without it.
biew.hlp - file containing help system. BIEW will try to open it
as /usr/lib/biew/biew.hlp and in case of failure will
work without it.
standard.skn- file containing color skin. BIEW will try to open it in
same subfolder as biew.hlp and in case of failure will
work without it.
For more information see unix.txt
2.3.- For all systems:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anyway, if you do not agree with default placing of files you can
create BIEW_INI environment variable that will indicate where to
search a file of initializing a project, through which you will be
able to define all other adjustment of program.
3.- Program startup.
====================
Why this subject appeared in documentation?
Many people ask me: "How to start a program ?-("
And I considered necessary to add this material, though for many
users it may seem primitive (they can skip this subject).
I skip start the program from the command line of console as not
requiring additional comments.
Main goal of program interface is working under some shells (like
Norton Commander, Far, Midnight and etc), to be launched as external
viewer by F3 key. In this case adjusting of program is reduced to
adjustment of respective file manager. For major number of managers
an adjustment is reduced to instruction - what external viewer will
launched for F3 key. Name of viewed file will be sent to program
through generally accepted in this case '!' symbols.
Example of adjusting calling BIEW for Norton Commander:
`C:\biew\biew.exe !.!'
Example of adjusting calling BIEW for Far Commander:
`"C:\Program Files\biew\biew.exe" !.!'
If You use Volkov Commander, then best edit vcview.ext file:
com: biew.exe !.!
exe: biew.exe !.!
dll: biew.exe !.!
*: your default viewer
If You use Midnight Commander, then best edit /usr/lib/mc/mc.ext file:
# Default target for anything not described above
default/*
Open=
- View=
+ View=biew %f
Drop=
Title=%p
### EOF ###
If you are not admirer of different commanders and prefer to work
only with GUI shells (like explorer, PM/2 or KDE), but herewith you
even so have decided to use BIEW, the best decision is to create BIEW
icons on your "desktop", adjust its properties (such as size
consoles, font size etc) and use drag-and-drop technology to start
the program. (I.e. catch by "mouse" icon of any file and drop it over
BIEW icon, herewith OS will automatically start BIEW with the name of
dropped file as an argument). I think, today major number of desktops
supporting drag-and-drop technology have such feature (at least it
checked in WinNT, OS/2. Not checked, but hopefully works on
Unix-Gnome, KDE).
4.- Short keyboard guide
========================
Starting from version 5.00 there is following concept of keyboard
usage:
F1-F10 - Basic functions of BIEW, basically for switching modes.
ShiftF1- - Help functions of BIEW, for calling service utilities.
ShiftF10
AltF1- - Defined by executable module fragment of BIEW.
AltF10 (PE, NE, ELF, etc.)
CtrlF1- - Defined by current view mode
CtrlF10 (bin, text, hex, disasm).
4.1.- Basic keys:
-----------------
F1 - Displayed window "Intro" (About)
F2 - Mode switch:
Binary - Binary mode. All characters displayed as is.
( Very quick )
Text - Text mode. In this mode characters 0AH and 0DH
are string terminators. The program has
several modes of text view available through
Ctrl-F2.
Hex - Hexadecimal mode. In this mode information is
displayed in form of hexadecimal digits:
Byte - as 8-bit byte,
Word - as 16-bit word,
DoubleWord - as 32-bit double word,
Binary - as bits.
Disasm - Disassembler mode. Information is displayed
as assembly instructions of CPU/FPU.
Disassembler contain full instruction set for
PentiumIII/K7 Athlon/Cyrix-M2 microchips.
Instructions for different chips are
displayed with different colors. Press
[ShiftF1] for color set legend, [CtrlF1] for
known instruction sets.
F3 - Select other file to view from file list in command line
F4 - Modification mode. ( Not available in text mode ). Allows
modifying information in binary, hexadecimal and disassembler
modes. Also it is possible to put the mask [F3] and execute
logical operation ( OR, XOR, AND, PUT ) for input information
stream and mask. Current value of mask displayed in
upper-right corner of screen [F2] - save changes to disk. [F9]
and [CtrlBkSpace] - restore original values of modified byte.
In text mode this key (F4) switches Wrap/Unwrap modes.
F5 - Goto. Moves current file pointer on given offset:
- from start of file (ABSOLUTE mode).
- from current position (RELATIVE mode).
- to virtual address (VIRTUAL mode).
F6 - Reread file.
F7 - Search. Offers to input sequence up to 20 characters and
searches for it. If given sequence exists then program
highlights it during all lifetime, or until other search
sequence, or file rereading.
F8 - If viewing file is DOS-driver, DOS-exe or NEW-exe displays
"old" "MZ" DOS header. [Enter] - jump on entry point.
F9 - Setup.
F10 - Quit function or program. [Escape] - alternative way.
4.2.- SHIFT - common utilities and setup:
-----------------------------------------
ShiftF1 - Help for current mode.
ShiftF5 - Where - Display information about current file position.
ShiftF6 - System information:
- ASCII table of character generator.
- ...
ShiftF7 - Continues search without query for new sequence.
ShiftF8 - Auxiliary utilities:
- Digital converter. Convert numbers from one base to other:
16, +-10, 8, 2
- Calculator
- ...
ShiftF10- File utilities. Utilities that allow to change contents
and size of current file.
- ChSize. Change file size.
- FStore. Write dump of current file to the given
filename of choice. It is possible to write
disassembler block of information in selected bitness
(USE16 or USE32). Not allowed out of range of file.
- FRestore. Restores already stored before dump of
information starting from given position and length
in file. Not allowed out of range of file
(Autotruncation).
- Insert/delete - Inserts empty block or deletes
existing block of information with resizing.
- Crypt block - crypt/decrypt block with user password.
This feature used non standard algorithm of encryption.
4.3.- ALT - key binding to NEW-exe:
-----------------------------------
Usage of these keys is not hard limited, and generally follows this
conception:
(function is applied only if given feature exists in current format)
AltF1 - Help for current format.
AltF2 - Displays list of external modules (dynamic or shared
libraries) referenced by the current module (dynamic link).
In many modes by pressing [Enter] list of referenced
external (imported) names (functions) from required module
needed for external link resolving will be displayed.
AltF3 - Displays list of exported names.
AltF8 - Displays native (non MZ) header of module.
AltF9 - Displays list of pages contained in the objects of module.
AltF10 - Displays object (segment) list of module.
All other keys have function defined by internal structure of module.
4.4.- CTRL - key binding to view mode:
--------------------------------------
CtrlF1 - Additional mode help.
CtrlF2 - Select "submode" of view
CtrlF6 - Address Resolution (Resolving) - in hex/disasm modes
controls details of address in left column. Will display
absolute file offset from beginning of the file or
relative offset from beginning of the block/segment of
current binary format with the name of block/segment. All
other keys are defined by selected mode.
Note: you can jump on points in tables or lists highlighted by
black background by pressing [ENTER].
4.5.- Functional keys, that are not displayed in prompt string
--------------------------------------------------------------
Ctrl-O - Review the last screen. This allows you to see again the
output produced by the last program executed.
5.- CodeGuider
==============
(available only in disassembler mode)
Codeguider is mechanism of moving within code of program. For moving
within code following keys are used:
[0],[1],[2],...[9],[A]([a]),[B]([b]),...[Z]([z]), [BackSpace]
If there's a pointer in the right position of disassembler string:
=>[X] then after pressing key [X] you move to address referenced by
instruction. To return back press [BackSpace]. Stack of return
addresses is 256 cells.
6.- Invisible features ( dark secrets )
=======================================
In any program there's number of possibilities which obviously are
not seen through menu items and prompt, but which influence upon the
behaviour or result of program performance, and on them is necessary
know all.
All these functional possibilities with time will be described in
the help system, on the measure that, as it will develop.
Below brought on the whole visibility their incomplete list:
- Help System, if it exists, it is available through [F1] key, even
though in the help this obviously not specified. (In greater
degrees this concerns windows of dialogues).
- Transition on [F5] saves in the stack CodeGuider' current
position, as an address of return.
- Code page convertion:
Code page convertion of the document occurs automatically when
calling the functions [ShiftF10] => "Save block as...", if program
bases in the "Text mode" and chosen coding "CodPag", is
distinguished from "Current". Herewith save block will
automatically be transformed to the code operating system page.
This fair for all modes having not trivial realization of
convert_cp function (today it is only beside TextMode).
7.- Undocumented features
=========================
Why undocumented if it is placed into documentation?
Because these features were not programmed specially and exist not in
all ports of project. I do not know all of them, but think that this
material will grow.
For 32-bit version of project on Win32 & DOS32 there's next feature:
If program runs with wildcard as argument, then automatic globbing
of wildcard to full name of files occures. Example:
biew *.c
will equivalent to run of biew with enumeration of all files that
have .c extension in the current folder. (I.e. all names will exists
in list 'more' through F3 key). Unfortunately this feature exists
only in libraries of DJGPP and Cygwin, but port for OS2 has emx-glibc
and proper to rsxnt (for it project does not oriented) does not have
such feature. In contrast, such behaviour of project is, by default,
documented for all *NIX system.
8.- Program versions
=====================
I'm choose following concepts of appropriation of version numbers to
program:
V.S.E-R.T-C.O
V - VERSION. Basic program version. Changes in case global
(strategical) changes in philosophy of program or when principle
new features appear.
S - SUBVERSION. Changes in case serious changes of code or appear new
tactical possibilities or features.
E - EXTRAVERSION. Changes at each new immediate stable release and as
rule related with bug fixing or adding a little innovations.
R - REVISION. When version is stable then R.T is omited.
Traditionally can to contain approximately following values:
pre - PREVIEW VERSION: recommend for preview purposes only
devel - DEVELOPMENT: version, intended for developers and beta
testers.
hotfix - extraordinary bug fixing in already released version.
fp - fix package
T - TESTLEVEL. revision level of program.
C - CPU. Indicated for which platform build the program.
O - OS. Indicated for which OS build the program.
9.- History
===========
Amount of found errors is decreasing in each release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
9.1.- Old history.
------------------
v0.01 - Was so long ago I don't remember.
v0.90 - 29 dec 1995. ( 80486/387 disassembler )
v0.99 - 17 jan 1996. ( Search system )
v1.00 BETA - 19 jan 1996. Final edition 1.00.
v1.01 BETA - 21 feb 1996. DOS Drivers header & system information
v1.50 BETA - 27 feb 1996. RAM viewer
v1.51 BETA - 01 mar 1996. PE header ( without tables )
v2.00 BETA - 04 mar 1996. Text viewer
v2.01 BETA - 05 mar 1996. Windows CodePage 1251 & DKOI converter
v2.02 BETA - 06 mar 1996. EBCDIC converter
v3.00 - 12 mar 1996. Binary editor
v3.10 - 14 mar 1996. Hexadecimal editor
v3.11 - 15 mar 1996. Digital converter
v3.20 - 22 mar 1996. Disassembler editor.
v3.21 - 29 mar 1996. Performance detection CPU/FPU
v3.21 PRO - 01 apr 1996. Testing of disassembler.
v3.22 PRO - 02 apr 1996. Mouse support.
v3.23 PRO - 04 apr 1996. Add work with dumps. ( CtrlF2 / CtrlF3 )
v3.50 PRO - 04 may 1996. Add calculation of entry point in NE files.
v3.52 PRO - 23 may 1996. LE,LX headers. LX name tables
v3.53 PRO - 28 may 1996. PE objects.
v3.60 PRO - 11 jun 1996. 80586 disassembler.
v3.61 PRO - 31 jul 1996. PE table and entry points.
v3.65 PRO - 19 feb 1997. ImpDef utility.
v3.66 PRO - 23 may 1997. CMOS viewer.
v3.70 PRO - 28 may 1997. For Ctrl-F2 changed dump of disassembler (add
labels), also different types of comments.
( Special for A. Glinkin )
v3.79.99 PRO- 29 may 1997. 80686/80687 disassembler.
v3.80 PRO - 2 jun 1997. K. Boldyshev made right translation of texts
to English. Better mouse support.
Automatic detection of text files.
v3.81 PRO - 4 jun 1997. Correct some bugs.
v3.85 PRO - 11 jun 1997. Add displaying relocation references
in MZ ¨ NE structures.
v3.86 PRO - 13 jun 1997. Add CodeGuider.
v3.87 PRO - 23 jun 1997. In PE format for ImportDirRVA add correction
for MajVer,MinVer <> 0.
Add sort of lists by F2,F3.
v3.90 PRO - 17 jul 1997. LX,LE tables and entry points.
v3.95 PRO - 28 aug 1997. Speed-up NE file binding, and corrected some
mistakes of ver 3.90. Changed displaying prefixes
in disassembler. Add object code hiding ( CrtlF7 )
Rewrote Help of assembler.
v3.96 PRO - 3 sep 1997. Speed-up MZ binding, corrected some errors of
disassembler and shell.
v3.97 PRO - 5 sep 1997. Virtual binding PE files. ( Virtual - because
special analyze of address of relative jump,
but not this place, as in NE format).
Corrected call/jmp far for MZ files!
Corrected 66h/67h for Use16/Use32 after change
prefix representation.
v4.00 PRO - 26 sep 1997. P5MMX disassembler.
Optimization of disassembler.
Changed strategy moving within disassembler:
1. backward disassembling
2. keys <-,-> changed file position on -+ 1 byte
3. keys , changed file position on -+ 1
instruction
Independent remember Bin/Txt/Hex/Asm for memory
and file.
Rewriting Help for disassembler; expanded service
in disassembler editor. Correct little errors.
v4.01 PRO - 20 dec 1998. Work in protected mode.
9.2.- New history.
------------------
v5.0.0-beta.0 ! Changed interface, internal architecture of code. Now program is
16 may 1999. more object-oriented. Rewrote aprox. 80% of code. (For program
this started new life. Code now is simple expanded and made
first steps in portability way - multiplatform) Somewhat lost
(RAM, CMOS view), added alpha support Unix formats - ELF, a.out,
coff32, arch
v5.0.0-pre.1 ! Cut off:
24 may 1999. - work with memory
- SysInfo (First step for porting on any platforms and OS'es)
Added:
+ hot keys in lists.
v5.0.0-pre.2 ! Returned disassembler functions
26 may 1999. + (HiLight, PanelMode, Reference resolving)
v5.0.0-pre.3 ! Bug fixes:
10 jun 1999. * work with mouse.
* conversation long int -> string
* little errors of disassembler
Added:
+ Additional info for MZ format (such as: archiver, ...)
+ alpha support of PharLap format.
+ quick mode switch by Enter
+ License (F9)
v5.0.0-pre.4 ! Bug fixes:
18 jun 1999. * hex edition
* errors of disassembler
Added:
+ Pentium III instructions sets
+ K6 3dNow! instructions set
+ CPU family pointer in 10 position in disassembler mode
v5.0.0-pre.5 ! Added:
23 jun 1999. + Cyrix 686 instructions set
* Rewrote help of assembler
+ Search in lists
v5.0.0-pre.6 ! Changes:
30 jun 1999. * Error of search in selective lists
+ ShiftF10 - File utilities
* ShiftF2/ShiftF3 moved to ShiftF10 menu
+ Insert/delete block in File Utilities
v5.0.0-pre.7 ! Changes:
6 jul 1999. * Error in Save as/Restore procedures
* Linked with new version of XDOS16 loader
Works on:
- DOS + QDPMI 7 (1.02)
- Win9x
- WinNT + SP3
- OS2Warp.4 + FP5
Don't works on :-((( :
- DOS + QDPMI 9 (1.10)
- Linux + dosemu
v5.0.0-pre.8 ! Changes:
29 jul 1999. ++++++ HURRAY!!! PROJECT IS PORTABLE +++++++++
++++++ JUST IN TIME 32-BITS VERSION
++++++ PORTED UNDER:
++++++ DOS32 (GO32 of DJGPP)
++++++ OS/2 (16 & (32 bit's version for EMX))
++++++ WIN32 for Cygwin and RSX
+ File Information in ShiftF10
* Restored function AddressResolv by CtrlF6
* Opened read-only file
* Rewrote all console part
v5.0.0-pre.9 ! Changed:
20 aug 1999. * Disassembler errors:
in some instructions with one operand wrong interpreted
field mod of command
* Accelerated video output
+ Added .ini files (There biew saved basic variables for
restoring self state after rerun (In future will expanded)
+ Translit in Russia codepage converter
* Corrected error in search system
v5.0.0-pre.10 ! Changes:
5 oct 1999. * Detected error of disassembler - wrong displaying arguments
many instructions (I hope it last)
* Don't warning, if write in file impossible
* Correct error of edition for small files
* Changed wrong size of some dialog windows
* Cosmetic changes of dialog windows
* Corrected some little errors
+ Additional Russian codepages
+ Common accelerates
= Comparison of productivity 32 and 16 bits versions is: 4/1.
(May be 16-bits version must die?)
+ F3 - More
+ Initial Linux port
+ Displayed pressed control key in left lower corner ( special
for *NIX terminal )
* Accelerated search by using Boyer-Moore algorithm
v5.0.0 (Stable) ! Changes:
20 feb 2000 ++++++ I opened project under GNU GPL (Developers are welcome!)
* Project was proofread
+ Accelerated video output
* Corrected minor errors
* Disassembler block rewritten as plugin
+ Best memory usage. Decreased number of static arrays.
Dynamics array is allocated in compete mode.
* Fixed memory leak (existed since v5.0.0-pre.9)
+ User screen (Ctrl-O)
+ Undocumented opcodes of i387SL, Cyrix487
+ Help system
+ Opcodes of AMD-K7 Athlon
+ Utilities rewritten as addons
+ Integer calculator
+ .Ini file has saved more number of modes
+ Crypt/Decrypt block
* Fixed error of buffering of file
* Fixed search system error
* Correct disassembler error in SIB-block (existed since 0.xx
versions)
+ Released time slice while waiting for input
+ Virtual jump
+ Where. Display information about current position of file.
+ CPU performance utility (restored from 4.x versions)
* Some optimization
+ 'Put structures' in Save as dialogs for disassembler mode.
(attempt to recreate internal structures of current file).
+ Added RDOFF support
+ Restored 0F BA opcodes family.
Reported by ("Patrick Alken" <wnder@underworld.net>)
v5.0.1 ! Changes:
03 mar 2000 + Force mono output
+ Mouse sensitivity
+ Accelerated .ini file input/output
* Fixed minor error in sources (ansi compliance, gcc-2.95
compatible)
* Fixed bug in hexadecimal editor
* Fixed minor bugs in disassembler
v5.0.2 ! Changes:
26 mar 2000 * Fixed bug of viewing 0 length file(s) reported by
("Alexey Plehanov" <aplehan@hoaxer.opensys.tsogu.ru>)
* Fixed bug in disassembler editor (when screen width > 80).
Fixed by CyberMan (cyberman@ag.ru)
+ Added fully-featured Unicode support (ru/en zones)
and lot of Unicode-related bugs fixed.
* Fixed bug when search system did not correctly show the found
string in text mode with expanded tabs characters, when the
found string was outside of screen
+ Max. width of screen increased upto 255 chars.
* Fixed minor bugs
* Minor optimization
* Now function twDirectWrite is not affected cursor position
+ Win2000 ready! (thanks to Eugene Roshal roshal@rarsoft.com and
Cyberman cyberman@ag.ru)
+ MSCV 6.0 port (ported by Cyberman cyberman@ag.ru still
without assembler block).
+ Hexadecimal viewer adapts to screen size.
* Full screen editors rewrite contents lesser.
* If value of item written to .ini file has % symbol,
then this string is written to .ini file within #nosmart
#smart records.
5.0.3 ! Changes:
31 mar 2000 * Fixed bug of lost title and footer in some windows.
(twRefreshWin now updates only internal part of window,
but entire window is updated with twRefreshFullWin)
* Fixed bug of creating temporary files when it was unable
to open viewed file.
* Convert OS/2 rc to UNIX errno.
* In windows that used own filling technology filler char is
changed from 0x00(zero) to TW_DEF_FILLER.
Thanks to Paul Sokolovsky <Paul.Sokolovsky@technologist.com>
* All constants from twin.h file now have prefix TW_*.
* Found way to avoid problem of bugs of console input
under Win95. Works while with the little delay.
Tested on Win95 PE, OSR2, Win98
Fixed by Alexander Lokhan'ko <alex@eunet.lt>
5.0.4 ! Changes:
14 apr 2000 * Removed slight delay in win9x console bug workaround code.
Fixed by Alexander Lokhan'ko <alex@eunet.lt>
* Fixed bug in UNICODE, incorretly displayed symbol 0xFE
from cp437/cp866 (BLACK SQUARE).
* Fixed text mode bug (caused GPF/segfault) when
viewing any binary file as UNICODE text.
* Removed warning 'fnUnix2Dos discards const attributes'
for DOS, OS/2, Win32 platforms.
* Fixed bug of wrong keyboard codes for SHIFT+key under Win9x
(existed since 5.0.3)
* Minor optimization.
* Fixed minor bugs.
* Added BeOS support
5.1.0 ! Changes:
02 jun 2000 * Some changes in structures of source tree,
rewritten makefiles, kbd_code.h. (pgcc-2.95.2 compatible)
* Since this release all platform independed binary files
will be stored in bin_rc subfolder in source package.
* Fixed bug of nonredrawing hex-window when text window is
updates in hexadecimal editor.
Reported by Alexander Lokhan'ko <alex@eunet.lt>
* Some revision functionality and fixing some bugs in text
window library. Little accelerating of project.
* Revision of .ini library. Accelerated work with .ini files.
+ Increased documentation.
* Fixed bug in disassembler mode - incorrectly displayed
percents. Reported by Barlog <barlog@mail.ru>
* Fixed bug of incorrectly displaying new source when new source
selectes through F3(more).
* Fixed bug of non aligned on four columns, when file viewed as
byte in hecadecimal mode.
Reported by "Stanislav Shenk" <live-evil@mtu-net.ru>
+ Fully featured COFF386 support.
+ Add skin support.
+ Add color to help system.
* Fixed bug of highlighting search result (caused GPF /segfault),
when width of screen > 80 characters.
Reported by Alexey Kuznetsov <flame@baltnet.ru>
* Fixed bug in disassembler (lost ib (2-nd argument)
in 'enter' instruction)
* Fixed bug in module of PE format - GPF/segfault when viewing
import table with very long names.
Reported by Alexey Kuznetsov <flame@baltnet.ru>
* Fixed bug in module of LX format - calculation of entry point
was blocked. Detect LX format even "old" MZ header is lost.
+ !!! STRESS TEST of program and lot of bug fixed !!!
* Fixed bug of NLS file names on Win32.
Reported by Eugene Suslikov <sen@kmr.ru>
* Viewing file now opened in read only mode.
* Extended support of symbolic tables in ELF and autodetected
endian of ELF.
+ Tried to prevent a program from infinity loops, when binary
file is broken or corrupt.
Reported by Eugene Suslikov <sen@kmr.ru>
* Fixed bug when search system displayed only part of the found
string in the text mode with expanded tabs characters.
+ Added new experimental calling convention: __FASTCALL__
defined in lib/sysdep/##__MACHINE_/_inlines.h
Capacity to work was tested for gcc-2.7.2.3 - pgcc-2.95.2
(gcc-2.7.2.3 looks the most trustworthy).
Most functions were modified. Executable is reduced on ~17Kb
and gained some speedup.
Remarks: using this technology possible only if C-library
of host system is fully compliant with accepted standards
(saving of registers: esi, edi, ebx and etc.).
So cdecl and fastcall versions under os2-emx, linux and unix
have same results of work, but under winnt-crtdll.dll -
different. Therefore, this technology is possible to use only
when using libraries (external and statically linked),
compiled with gcc and only after frequently testing.
__FASTCALL__ is part of stress test technology.
5.1.1 ! Changes:
23 jun 2000 * Minor changes, fixes and optimization.
+ Initial Watcom C and DOS/4GW port (see mk_files/makefile.wc)
+ Added new flag for ia32: -fshort-enums
(For details see "Optimization notes" in "release.txt")
* Suppressed most compilation extra warnings.
* Fixed bug of denied writting in FileUtils and disassembler,
which appeared after opening file in readonly mode.
+ Added opcode FFREEP, found in documentation on Athlon
Publication # 22007 Rev: D and documented as available for all
32-bit x86 processors.
* Fixed bug of uninitializing lx_cache in LE format. (le_cache
more not used).
5.1.2 ! Changes:
06 jul 2000 * MSVC compile fixes
Fixed by CyberMan <cyberman@ag.ru>
* Fixed bug of incorrect displaying in binary submode of
textmode.
* Fixed bug of sorting in listboxes.
+ Extended coff386 format navigation
* Rewritten twin library and vio.c in endian independed manner
Changed interface to twWriteBuffer, twReadBuffer functions!!!
(Probably should work on non-little endian platforms).
+ Qualitative speedup Win32 input/output by use of
WaitForSingleObject
* lib subfolder renamed to biewlib
* Removed all redirecting headers.
* Bugfixes and changes in colorset.c and standard.skn
* Other minor changes and fixes.
5.2.0-pre.1 ! Changes:
22 sep 2000 * Improved sources documentation
* Doxygen compatible commentaries
* __FASTCALL__ macros defined as __stdcall__ by default
* In windows that used own filling technology changed using
strncpy to memcpy. strncpy function caused filling output
buffer with 0x00 characters:
As it defined in GNU-glibc manual:
If the length of FROM is less than SIZE, then `strncpy'
copies all of FROM, followed by enough null characters to
add up to SIZE characters in all. This behavior is rarely
useful, but it is specified by the ISO C standard.
Reported by Sergey Ratnikov <RatnikovS@mail.ru>
* Fixed bug of wrong computing entries in Symbol Table of elf386
* Fixed bug of wrong computing segments when they are unordered
in elf386 format
* OS depended release of all file related functions.
* P4 compatible CPU Performance tool.
* Fixed bug of nondestroying of CurrPEChain in destroyPE
Fixed by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
* Fixed bug of nondisplaying import names when idFlags field
is NULL. Described in book of Matt Pietrek
"Windows 95 System Programming Secrets".
Fixed by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ For PE format hidding .dll extension in import names at
references resolving only.
Added by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ Added forwarding references for PE format and dereferencing
ret instructions.
Added by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
Applied to all formats by author, as new menu item of
disassembler: reference prediction.
+ Added dysplaying of virtual address in address column
format and as argument of jump insns.
For PE added by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
Applied to all formats by author
+ Modified codenavigation for indirect jmp and call for
Reference resolving = navigation
Modified by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ Modified code navigation system: for same target addresses of
location are used same keys.
Modified by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ Saving dump of disassembler to file has virtual addresses
if it selected in disassembler.
+ Added references prediction in disassembler. Will tend
to growing in future versions.
5.2.0-pre.2 ! Changes:
29 sep 2000 + Pentium-4 (Willamette) disassembler.
(+144 new instructions of SSE2)
* Fixed wrong order of operands on some MMX (not SSE)
instructions. (Right disassembling, but wrong order).
* Fixed codeguide problem with BkSpace key. Existed since
5.2.0-pre.1
5.2.0-pre.3 ! Changes:
13 oct 2000 * Fixed control of object bounds in PE format.
Fixed by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ Finalized developer documentation.
+ Improved reference prediction, references are displaying even
when internal fixup is detected or when operand is
dislpacement but not immediate.
+ Colored commentaries of reference prediction.
+ New prediction: LEAVE. It is applied when jump is not referred
to RET insn directly, but it obviously return from routine.
Example:
jmpC YYYY ; RETURN
jmpC XXXX ; LEAVE
...
XXXX:
pop edx
mov esp, ebp
pop ebp
YYYY:
ret NNNN
5.2.0 ! Changes:
29 oct 2000 * Fixed minor errors
* Minor optimization
* Increased reference prediction depth.
* Improved prediction of LEAVE.
* Fixed interpretation of 2 byte displacement of ModRM and
immediate operands of x86 disassembler as signed if it
meaningfully for instruction.
Reported by "Kostya Nosov" <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
* Fixed interpretation of 4 byte displacement of ModRM and
immediate values of x86 disassembler.
If ModRM contains displacement only it is unsigned, otherwise
- signed.
Immediate operand of add, adc, sub, sbb instructions is
interpreting as signed. For any other instructions such
conversions are ambiguous.
* Minor changes in dialogs.
* Fixed problem with pseudographics under *nix-terminal.
* In module twin.c: added checking of bounds of physical
screen buffer.
* Fixed minor bugs in textmode plugin.
+ Since curses library (is used in Unix versions)
has 1 second delay after ESCAPE key pressing, for it was
added alias - F10, in general, anywhere.
5.3.0-pre.1 ! Changes:
26 nov 2000 + NEW: MMF (Memory-mapped files) technology for work with files.
Available for all OS exclude DOSxx.
(Optimization for native CPU now is significant. Comparision
of k6 versus i386 optimization for this project ~10%)
OS/2 part is based on code http://www.edm2.com/0610/memorymap.zip
written by Sergey I. Yevtushenko <evsi@naverex.kiev.ua>
= Effect of speedup MMF versus traditional I/O = from 2.5 to 5
times (depends from OS and testing algorithm).
* Fixed bug when text mode plugin did not correctly show the
found string in plain submode with expanded tabs characters,
when the found sequence is located out of 255
characters from start of string.
* Fixed errno filling in win32 part.
* Minor improving of LX format support.
+ Implementation biewlib as standalone library. As effect,
rewritting some makefiles.
+ Added possibility of preserving timestamp of files that
are being modified by BIEW.
* Minor optimization.
5.3.0-pre.2 ! Changes:
08 dec 2000 * Qualitative speedup of many processes for all OS. Was born
after a long discussion in forum on www.os2.spb.ru
* Minor fixes:
* some pointers during disassembling were not initialized
* losing of last character in commentaries
* changing technology recognition of new-exe files
Fixed by Kostya Nosov <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
+ Added possibility of preserving of virtual addresses during
reference resolving in 'Local offsets' mode.
(Implemented only for NLM and PE formats)
+ Added leaving a message boxes by pressing SPACE and ENTER.
* Fixed bug of reading of elf386 virtual map when section
headers are lost. (Probably exists since 5.2.0-pre.1)
* Fixed bugs in OS/2 MMF part. (Probably same logic should
to use in Win32).
5.3.0-pre.3 ! Changes:
24 dec 2000 * Fixed minor bugs in dialogs. (Exist since 5.3.0-pre.2)
+ Improved and expanded search engine and fixed a lot of minor
search related errors.
I tried to use Boyer-Moore optimization for wildcard engine
as far as it possible
+ NEW!!! Started work with classes of windows
See usage in bconsole.c for PercentWnd function.
Work inheres on the initial stage but technology already
works!
* Minor changes in coff386 format for reference prediction
5.3.0-pre.4 ! Changes:
11 feb 2001 * Fixed bug of computing virtual and physical address maps
for elf386 format. For computing that maps now are used
only sections which occupy space during execution.
Example:
name type flg virtaddr fileoffs size
.got PRGBTS WA 0000567C 0000467C 00000010
.dynamic DYNLNK WA 0000568C 0000468C 00000058
.bss NOBITS WA 000056E4 000046E4 00008010
.stab PRGBTS 00000000 000046E4 00004F38
.stabstr STRTAB 00000000 0000961C 000027A9
.comment PRGBTS 00000000 0000BDC5 000000DA
.note NOTES 00000000 0000BE9F 00000064
.shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 0000BF03 0000009F
.symtab SYMTAB 00000000 0000C2EC 00001770
.strtab STRTAB 00000000 0000DA5C 0000118C
Here: last 7 sections are rubbish for computing of address
space.
* Fixed bug in computing symbolic table entry point of elf386
(I hope it final fix)
* Fixed minor errors in coff386 formats.
* Fixed bug in twPutS (has effect under *nix only)
+ Added new skins: insight.skn by me
golded.skn by Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
and slightly changed assembly.skn
+ Implementation of biew.man and biew.spec
by Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
+ Added support for elf386 relocations. This has finished a
gamma-stage of elf386 plugin and has updated it up to
fully-featured one.
+ Improved LEAVE prediction. Instructions:
sub (e)sp, digits
add (e)sp, digits { add esp, -2 === sub esp, 2 }
also are instructions of LEAVE set.
+ Minor expanded developer's documentation (topic 4.3 was
added).
+ Developer's documentaion (English part) was proofreaded
by Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
+ A lot of improvements in elf386 plugin. Added support of
non-standard binaries.
+ Minor assembler's optimization.
* A lot of changes and improvements in Linux/Unix depended
parts of project that was implemented
by Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
5.3.0-pre.5 ! Changes:
30 mar 2001 * Fixed bug of addend losing in elf386 format
+ Added MMX optimization (only for (p)gcc compiler)
(You should modify makefile to enable it).
* Fixed minor bugs in elf386, coff386 plugins.
* Qualitative speedup video output for main window of browser
(approx. upto 95-100% under WinNT, but under DOS32 - effect
is too minor).
* Minor improvements in mz plugin
* Fixed MMF related bugs in bbio. It might decrease stability!
+ Improved ix86 help.
* Win32-MMF was rewritten with using OS/2-MMF logic.
(ChSize now works in MMF mode too).
Unfortunately this code can not be used with Watcom 11
because its C-libraries use own exception handlers.
+ Improved CPU performance test.
+ Improved references prediction. (Logic of autolevel plugins
(plugins/bin) was slightly changed).
+ Added first implementation of search within disassembler
output and fixed a lot of minor errors in the search engine.
* Fixed a lot of minor errors in auxiliary programs
(NOTE: Internal strcuture of help file was not changed)
* Fixed bug of losing of alignment during viewing unicode files
at EOF reaching.
* Solved fastcall problem: bug was in gcc. You should to use
gcc-2.95.3 if you want build the project with fast calling
convention.
* Fixed bug in "File information".
Fixed by Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>
5.3.0-pre.6 ! Changes:
22 may 2001 + Added QNX port.
Ported by Andrew Golovnia <andrew_golovnia@ukr.net>
* 3dnow opcodes prefetch and prefetchw now are different.
+ Added Watcom implementation of cpu_info.c
Added by Andrew Golovnia <andrew_golovnia@ukr.net>
Modified for using with Watcom11 by me.
+ Fast memory operations. Support 3dNow/MMX2/SSE optimization.
It speedups memcpy up to 5 times on modern (K7, P3) cpus
and about 20% on K6-2+ ones opposite to standard C-memcpy.
This technique was born in MPLAYER project.
Special thanks to:
Arpád GereOffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) <arpi@thot.banki.hu>
Felix Buenemann <Felix.Buenemann@gmx.de>
Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
* emmx was renamed to emms ;)
+ Automatical selection of compiling parameters.
* Fixed eof bug of ReadBuffer in mmf.
5.3.0-pre.7 ! Changes:
11 aug 2001 * Some improvements in NLS support
+ Added new pseudo opcodes for P3 and P4:
cmp(eq, lt, le, unord, neq, nlt, nle, ord)(ss, ps, sd, pd)
* Minor improvements in some dialogs
+ Endianify block (reverse byte order)
* Fixed bug of non repainting of hexfield in hexmode editor.
+ Xlat block (converts block with using of external tables)
* Fixed minor bugs in block operations
+ Added initial support of LMF (QNX4)
by Andrew Golovnia <andrew_golovnia@ukr.net>.
+ Prompts of dialogs were dropped to prompt string
* Fixed bug of disassembler's dump when program created
incorrect dump if several labels referenced to the same
physical address.
* Fixed hilight search when width and height of window are
great of 255.
Fixed by Alex Derbeev <2:455/2251.12>
* Fixed bug of segfault under Win9x in non-standard video modes
(like 150x50) - found way to avoid bugs of
Write(Read)ConsoleOutputAttribute from KERNEL32.DLL
Fixed by Kostya Nosov <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
* Fixed bug of wrong disassembler's redrawing at end of little
files. (Of these 3-h bytes: ÍÍô)
* Fixed bug of wrong fixup for instructions which start from 0Fh.
+ Expanded coff386's Public Name space by ST_LABEL.
+ Improved elf386 reference's name computing.
* Fixed bug of jump to symbol entry in elf386.
5.3.0 ! Changes:
07 nov 2001 * Fixed bug of editing 0 length file(s).
* Changed default location of 'biew.ini' under BeOS.
* Fixed bug of 03 hours in Percent dialogs (localtime->gmtime).
Fixed by Kostya Nosov <k-nosov@yandex.ru>
* Fixed bug of finding 0xFF code during performing one-byte
search.
* Kostya Nosov <k-nosov@yandex.ru> fixes:
* PE import: Displaying virtual address of function reloc.
* PE export: Displaying function exported by ordinal
* PE export: Displaying virtual address of function start
* NE bug: Fixed relocation computing in case of misordered
segments
+ Improvements which are related with ordinal's export in
ListBox dialog:
+ Size of ListBox is computed dynamically depend on
size of screen and strings.
+ Formatting of lines is performed within ListBox. As effect -
they requires less memory.
(Idea of Kostya Nosov. My implementation).
* Fixed gcc-3.x compilation.
Thanks to Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
* Fixed viewing of non regular and pseudo files under *nix
systems (like /dev/mem, /proc/cpu and so on).
* Fixed 'highligh search' bug in hexmode viewer.
+ Expanded CPUID stuff.
* Virtual addresses as operands of call and jmp insns in NE
plugin.
5.3.1 ! Changes:
23 dec 2001 * Fixed wrong jump-address computing for insns which start
from 0F
* Fixed -DDATADIR for beos
* Fixed bug which might cause program crash in disasm.c
* Fixed many wildcard related bugs
* Some fixes which are maden by Olivier Mengue <dolmen@bigfoot.com>
in win32 related stuff:
+ Fixed bswap64 compilation under MSVC
+ Solved warning
+ Added save/restore of console state.
+ Improvment of the non-DirectMode : in this mode, display
is relative to the visible window.
+ Fixed MSVC debug compilation
* Few cosmetic changes in unix related stuff by K. Boldyshev
5.3.2 ! Changes:
21 apr 2002 * A lots of *nix related improvements
* extensive proofreading. very extensive indeed.
I killed a whole day :) (by K. Boldyshev)
+ New prediction type: PIC (position independed code)
Example: .i386: jmp [ebx + name@GOT]
Only elf386 currently support that.
+ preliminary 64-bit ELF support
* Found workaround for Matrox BIOS bug thanks to
Robert Riebisch <riebisch@bercom-berlin.de>
* Fixed computing of indirect address for SSE(2)
insns in SIB mode
5.5.0 ! Changes (This release starts 64-bit support in biew)
04 jun 2003 * Fixed bug #566760 (segfault on file format detection)
* Fixed SSE test
+ Implemented BkSpace behaviour for Delete key in hex dialog editor
+ Disable some non obvious features of 'Search dialog' in hex mode
+ Athlon64 disassembler
(highlights different execution units for Athlon64)
+ fully featured support of ELF-64 LSBF
* some misc improvements in dialogs and other windows by X-Fixer <x-fixer@narod.ru>
* PE related fixes by X-Fixer <x-fixer@narod.ru>:
* moved RVAs out of PEHEADER to make proper support of pe.peDirSize
* moved RVAs display out of Header display and made a special list
box for them (Alt-F9)
* fix in RVA2Phys()
* support of forwarding in PE exports (e.g. win2k's kernel32.dll)
* fixed displaying of 8-chars-long sections names
* more sections flags
* more subsystems
* use runtime mmx detection and mmx-optimized functions even for
i386 optimized project
* highlighs system opcodes
* configurable virtual width of browser in hex and bin modes
(idea was borrowed from pview project)
* PNI support (Prescott new instructions aka SSE3)
* fixed bug of non repainting of bottom part of window under
some vt100 terminals.
* reworked console's reader to enable clipboard pasting
through SysMenu->Edit->Paste facility of window
(by Sergey Oblomov <hoopoepg@mail.ru>)
* Fixed 'CPU performance' tool under DJGPP
5.6.0 ! Changes:
29 mar 2004 + Java disassembler
+ New feature: "Tabbed" browsing.
(Now you may access F1-F10 actions through TAB key)
+ Textmode syntax highlighing
+ New submodes of binmode
+ AVR disassembler by Stephan Linz
+ Enable SSE3 for Athlon64
(due Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology)
+ New feature: input viewer
* Fixed Bug#234729(debian.org):
Hexadecimal dump is not hex, but binary
(if hexmode was forced by -h key in command line)
* Fixed Bug#235005(debian.org): Missing values in hex listing
(was detected when width of terminal window was 106 chars)
* Fixes by Alex <latinsud@users.sourceforge.net>:
* Fixed bug of block-device opening
* Fixed case sensitive search in hexmode
* Fixed old and evil bug of not repainting of low part of window
under some terminals.
+ Add russian locales support in linux/unix systems
* Fixing multiple QNX related bugs
+ Added support for QNX 6 Neutrino
* QNX6 related fixes and improvements
+ Added mouse wheel support for Win2k+
* Some MSWin related fixes
by Oblomov Sergey <Sergey.Oblomov@intel.com>
* Fixed correct elf32 reading after applying 64-bit support
* Other minor/major fixes.
5.6.1 ! Changes:
01 apr 2004 * Fixed focus positioning in dialog
5.6.2 ! Changes:
20 sep 2004 * os2 compilation fixes from Max Alekseyev <relf@os2.ru>
* Various amd64-related fixes
(thanks to "Alexey Khoshenko" <alexey_khosh@rambler.ru>):
* fixed encoding order of spl, bpl, sil and dil registers
* in 'mov rax, [moff64]' address length affected only by rex.b
* 'mov CR(DR)x, GPR' and 'push/pop GPR' always use GPR64
* enabled access to CR8-CR15,DR8-DR15
* fixed size prefix for sign-extended imm8->[mem64] (by rex.w)
* allow to use r12 as index in rex-modrm-sib mode
* opcodes A0-A3 default to 64-bit.
* Fixed computing of link-table for 32-bit big-endian elfs
* Fixed gcc-3.4.2 compilation
* Big-endian and 64-bit related a.out fixes
5.6.3 ! Changes:
01 apr 2007 * Fixes by Andrew Golovnia <andrew_golovnia@users.sourceforge.net>
* Sis CPU's ID fix
+ itanium1/2 detection (experimental)
* detection of processor in PE format is fixed
* fixes of cpu identification
* CPUInfo display window changed to scrollable window
+ Added initial support for multimedia file formats (AVI,WAV,BMP,MP3)
5.6.4 ! Changes:
14 apr 2007 * Fixed bug #1695783 (biew 5.6.3 - Bug in file detection due mp3.c)
* Improved multimedia format support
+ Added initial support for Sis and SisX formats of Symbian OS
* Fixed bug #1696442 (-extraincdir and -extralibdir can only handle one extra lib.)
* Added endian selection in hexmode viewer
5.7.0 ! Changes:
20 dec 2008 * Fixes by Daniel Borca <dborca@yahoo.com>:
* unix/vio.c use the correct alternate set for line drawing.
see http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/alternate_charset/
* configure: accept linux and Linux from uname. i?86 is really ia32.
* makefile: install xlt and man pages correctly.
* unix/os_dep.c: DATADIR conforming to configure. Fix duplicate biew
name in configuration file
* ia32/_inlines.h: replace xlat with regular table indexing (to be able
to test biew with valgrind).
* linux/keyboard.c: fix 'I/O possible' error; it seems to be appearing
spuriously between __init_vio and the end of __init_keyboard, where
SIGIO is hooked as event handler. I think it's harmless to just or maybe
block SIGIO events until we are finished setting up the keyboard.
+ Assembling through the nasm/yasm. Patch by <mauro.giachero@gmail.com>
+ New opcodes (SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4a) in x86 disassembler.
+ Provide alternative insns hilighting in ix86-32 disassembler.
* Fixed bug of repainting in hexmode when up_arrow key pressed
and filepos == 0.
* Fixed REX handling in x86_64 disassembler
* Fixed CPU information dialog
+ New disassemblers:
+ ARM32 / XScale
+ AIM Power5+ ISA
+ Added support for PE32+ file format.
+ NEW: User defined names aka bookmarks (Ctrl-F10)!!!
* Many other improvements and fixes.
5.7.1 ! Changes:
28 dec 2008 * Minor fixes and cleanups.
+ feature request: [ 1782395 ] Make Goto (F5) accept percentages
5.7.2
11 jan 2009 ! Changes:
* Minor fixes and cleanups
* Workaround for output of external assembler.
* Fixed generic build
* Fixed broken output on UTF terminals
5.7.3
01 feb 2009 ! Changes:
* Fixed bug #2468422: biew doesn't work in main directory under DOS
* Fixed bug #2520144: Wrong computing of addressing mode in ARM dis.
* Fixed national input on UTF-based terminals
* Fixed RIP-realtive address resolving in AMD64 mode
5.7.3.1
02 feb 2009 ! Changes:
* replaced wrong patch for AMD64 disassembler
6.0.0
22 sep 2009 ! Changes:
+ Initial x86_64 port
6.0.1
14 oct 2009 ! Changes:
* Minor 64-bit OSes fixups
* Patch by Alexander Krisak (akrisak). Fixed a bug in parsing
elf executables that have non standard size of Elf32_Shdr
structure.
* Some spelling mistakes corrected
6.0.2
25 oct 2009 ! Changes:
* Disable MMF system for Win64 as workaround
* Fixed sizes of some implicit operands in x86_64 disasm
* Disable MMF access to .ini file
6.1.0.pre ! Changes:
11 nov 2009 + NEW:
added support for Intel's AES, AVX and AMD's XOP, FMA4, CVT16
into x86-disassembler
* Fixed some lacks in ./configure script
6.1.0
12 dec 2009 ! Changes:
* Minor fixes and cleanups
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