Hi, I'm analizing a little program "Hello word"

With the debugger I can see this:



With a hex editor I can see this one:



How can I relate what I see with the hex editor with the instructions that I see in the debuger?

For example: The header MENUETO1 = 4D 45 4E 55 45 54 30 31

I'd like to make a little menuetos / kolibrios emulator.

Thanks very much

They are the same except the hex editor groups it differently...

I try to explain it with an example:



The program tries to simulate to OS, but I don´t know how to interpret the opcodes.

Can you help me, please?

Thanks so much

Ángel

You have to decode the binary opcodes. Quite tricky to do in x86. Use the Intel manuals as your guide. Especially see manual 2B Appendices A & B for instruction formats and encoding details.

You are trying it in PHP? What if you need to simulate graphical stuff. Do you plan on some simple PNG images or SVG-graphics + JS?

arcangel wrote:

... The program tries to simulate to OS, but I don´t know how to interpret the opcodes. Can you help me, please?

It's called an emulator, or virtual machine - interpret every machine opcode to simulate execution of the program on it.
Is that what you're trying to do?

If yes, you're in for a long, long effort.

For opcode encoding and naming you can look at http://sandpile.org/ia32/index.htm

The meaning of them can be found in Intel's specs, easy to google.

Just in case, even for 16bit subset of x86 it can take many years to make an emulator capable of running meaningful programs. The best thing mine runs after 4 years of intermittent development is only a tetris game.

Actually for decoding we have our own (MazeGen from the board) effort up and running at http://ref.x86asm.net/index.html

It's somewhat chaotic for my liking - for encoding it's not as clear as sandpile, for meaning it's not as descriptive as Intel docs.
Maybe it's just needs getting used to.
And, what is x86reference.xml good for?

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You are trying it in PHP? What if you need to simulate graphical stuff. Do you plan on some simple PNG images or SVG-graphics + JS?

I use PHP for undestanding the program code. The emulator will be written in C.

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It's called an emulator, or virtual machine - interpret every machine opcode to simulate execution of the program on it. Is that what you're trying to do?

Yes

Thanks

Ángel

I don't exactly see why you want to create a virtual machine. If I was you, I'd first try to run menuet application natively. For each system call (int instruction) your framework will get a signal (in case of Unix systems) which you can handle to simulate menuetOS.

It's only a fuzzy idea, and I don't know whether it works, but I'd start in this direction.

There already one available that works like Endre posted called KlbrInWin and MeOSEmul
See here: http://board.kolibrios.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1273