iasm-mode

https://github.com/RAttab/iasm-mode.git

git clone 'git://github.com/RAttab/iasm-mode.git'
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Interactive Assembly Mode

Inspired by Justine Tunney's disaster.el (http://github.com/jart/disaster‎).

iasm provides a simple interactive interface objdump and ldd which facilitates assembly exploration. It also provides tools to speed up the edit-compile-disasm loop.

This mode currently only supports Linux because it relies rather heavily on objdump and ldd. It also hasn't been tested for other CPU architectures or other unixes so expect some of the regexes to spaz out in colourful ways.

Note that this is my first foray into elisp so monstrosities abound. Go forth at your own peril. If you wish to slay the beasts that lurk within or simply add a few functionalities, contributions are more then welcome. See the todo section for ideas.

Installation

Make sure to place iasm-mode.el somewhere in the load-path and add the following lines to your .emacs to enable iasm:

(require 'iasm-mode)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-d") 'iasm-disasm)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-l") 'iasm-ldd)

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
          (lambda ()
           (local-set-key (kbd "C-c d") 'iasm-goto-disasm-buffer)
           (local-set-key (kbd "C-c l") 'iasm-disasm-link-buffer)))

iasm-mode

iasm mode can be invoked using the iasm-disasm function which will prompt for an object file to disassemble. While you can provide just about anything that objdump supports, the mode currently only processes the .text section. iasm-disasm will then open up a new buffer with the symbols for that object file.

Additionally, when working on source files, iasm-disasm-link-buffer will invoke iasm-disasm on the given object file and will link the current buffer with the newly opened iasm buffer. This then allows you to invoke iasm-goto-disasm-buffer to quickly jump back to the iasm buffer and refresh it if the object file was modified. This is useful to quickly test the effect of change.

By default, all symbols are hidden which is a good thing. This makes it easier to search for a specific symbol and it allows iasm to lazily load the symbols assembly which is important when dealing with large object files. To toggle the visibility of a symbol simply move to the appriate like and hit TAB which will prompt iasm to either retrieve the relevant assembly from objdump or show/hide the symbol's assembly. c can be used to hide all the sections and M-n M-p can be used to jump to the next/previous section.

When moving around instructions, s will open a the source file at the line associated with that instruction. Alternatively, you can change line with n and p which will automatically track the source file. C-n and C-p work as usual. When on a jump instruction, j will jump to the target address if available. Note that this may trigger a symbol to be loaded.

Finally, g can be used to refresh the buffer if the object file was modified and q will close the buffer.

ldd-mode

iasm-ldd-mode is simple front-end for ldd which dumps all the dynamic libraries that a object file depends on. This can be used in conjunction with iasm-disasm to quickly locate symbols that aren't in the current object file.

To create a open ldd buffer, either invoke the iasm-ldd function or press l in an iasm buffer. In the resulting buffer, you can then press d to invoke iasm-disasm on a the given library. Hit j or RET to invoke iasm-ldd on the target library.

Finally, g can be used to refresh the buffer if the object file was modified and q will close the buffer.

Todos